Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:20:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry) Cc: shawjl@benfold.navy.mil (Shaw James Lester), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony CDU-31A CD-ROM Drives Message-ID: <199910241820.OAA40968@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199910240304.VAA06565@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Oct 23, 1999 09:04:19 pm"
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Kenneth D. Merry wrote, > Shaw, James Lester wrote... > > FreeBSD libserver.benfoldlibrary 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: > > Mon Oct 18 10:10:15 GMT 1999 > > root@libserver:/usr/src/sys/compile/SrvKernel i386 > > > > I'm having trouble getting FreeBSD to recognize all my "SONY CDU31A > > Rev 1.2b" drives. I have 4 total and it will only find 1. I have 2 > > cases daisy-chained together consisting of 2 drives each. Is there a > > way to fix this problem? > > Check your cabling and termination. You probably have termination enabled > on a drive in the middle of the chain or something. > > If you continue to have trouble, send mail to the freebsd-scsi list, and > make sure to include a detailed description of your cabling and termination > setup. I neglected to answer this the first time around since I didn't know the answer. But I do know this advice is not sound. The Sony CDU31A is NOT a SCSI CD-ROM. It is supported by the scd0 driver in FreeBSD. The CDU31A wires up to a proprietary interface (read as: some funky ISA card whose sole purpose is to support this CD-ROM). I have a couple of these in some old 486's. It was hard enough to get _one_ of those things to work. I didn't even know you could chain those things. If you are having problems, I might be able to provide the references I found that helped me get mine to work. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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