Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 16:32:30 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> To: Gavin Cameron <gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help with a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM Message-ID: <19970510163230.54733@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199705101128.VAA17071@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au>; from Gavin Cameron on Sat, May 10, 1997 at 09:28:31PM %2B1000 References: <19970510040125.57291@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199705101128.VAA17071@gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au>
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Gavin Cameron scribbled this message on May 10: > > > > my first guess was that it might of been jumpered for "unix boot" mode > > which means that any cdrom in the drive becomes a "hard disk" in the > > drive... my plextor has a jumper option that sets this... > > > > with another drive that is behaving properly I decided to speak up.. :) > I moved the drive over to my NT box with a 1542CP in it and the CD is also > recognised as a harddisk. not that surprising... > I've pulled the cover off to see what's under the hood and to see if there > are any jumpers that control the "unix boot" mode, but I couldn't find any. I assume you saw jumpers... were they unlabeled? and how many of them are there? if there are more than the ones for the ID you _MIGHT_ try and remove one of them... > How do I check if it's in this mode? talk to Toshiba and see if they have docs for it... > Could it be the controller? When I do the Control-A trick at boot time > the controller thinks that the CD is a harddisk and will even allow me > to format and verify the drive. I doubt it... just talk to Toshiba or do what Joerg suggusts... ttyl... -- John-Mark Cu Networking Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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