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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!remarque.berkeley.edu!cuccia From: cuccia@remarque.berkeley.edu (Nick Cuccia) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NEC CD-Readers Date: 29 Mar 1993 04:34:25 GMT Organization: Bump City Brewery and Barbecue, Berkeley, CA Lines: 38 Message-ID: <1p5u8h$276@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <CHRISTIA.93Mar22142821@latenite.ssc.gov> <RAEBURN.93Mar28062602@cambridge.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu In article <RAEBURN.93Mar28062602@cambridge.mit.edu> raeburn@athena.mit.edu (Ken Raeburn) writes: >In article <CHRISTIA.93Mar22142821@latenite.ssc.gov> christia@latenite.ssc.gov (Mike Christiansen) writes: > > Do the SCSI drivers work with the AHA controllers and the NEC CDR CD > Rom Readers??? > >I've got an AHA1542B controller, and am using Julian's SCSI driver. I >bought a NEC CDR-36, and was not able to get it to work with the >Adaptec controller, under 386BSD, or DOS. >Furthermore, when I called NEC tech support with some questions, >they gave me the impression that the '36 would probably have the same >SCIS disconnect problem I'd heard about for other NEC drives. (The >short form of it is that the SCSI bus is unavailable while the drive >is seeking or doing error recovery or what not, so other SCSI devices, >like hard drives, are unavailable for maybe several tenths of a second >at a time.) I'm using a NEC CDROM driver, though I can't remember the number off the top of my head, with the Adaptec 1542b and Julian's drivers. I've noticed the SCSI disconnect problems maybe once or twice in the past two months. >I took it back and got a Toshiba XM3401B drive instead. The drive >seems to work fine so far, but the isofs code seems to lose on some >disks, like Prime Time Freeware. (I haven't checked the latest >patchkit for any fixes to this.) I've had this problem, as well. Because reading the raw cd device with the A/UX iso9660 code supplied on PTF 2.1 loses at the same place the ISOFS does, and because the CDs work fine on my Sun at work, I suspect the problem's in the driver code, not the filesystem code. --Nick -- =============================================================================== And Little Sir John with his nut brown bowl, and his brandy in the glass. And Little Sir John with his nut brown bowl proved the strongest man at last. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------