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Date:      Wed, 3 Feb 1999 07:09:39 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CAM and ATAPI/IDE
Message-ID:  <19990203070939.55234@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902022140220.2741-100000@adam.enteract.com>; from John Sconiers on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 09:44:17PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902022140220.2741-100000@adam.enteract.com>

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As John Sconiers wrote:

> Does CAM capture stsatus changes of devices on the SCSI bus?  IE I
> place a cd into the SCSI cd-rom does CAM capture the signal sent by
> the hardware?

No such thing like a `signal sent by the hardware'.  Next time you
perform some operation on the device, it will respond with a Unit
Attention, thus telling you its medium has been changed.  Still, the
active part is on the side of the host adapter, always.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

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