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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: media vision mv4000
Date: 23 Nov 1995 06:30:38 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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References: <48uhk3$eb0@brumby.cowan.edu.au>
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Keywords: cdrom media vision problems bsd
In article <48uhk3$eb0@brumby.cowan.edu.au>,
<st951e1e@pilot.stu.cowan.edu.au> wrote:
:I have a media vision mv4000 (double spin) scsi cd-rom running off an on board
:NCR 53c810 controller. BSD seems to recognise it, but when mounting the CD,
:it tells me that the cdrom is unstable and won't read from it.
Unstable?
Are you sure?
I've NEVER seen that one?
(and I certainly never typed it in)
(and grep -i stable brings up nothing in /sys/scsi)
:Sometimes it
:will mount and let me read from it once, but then it stops working. my scsi
:hard drive is running off the same controller.
ok, so it sounds like the adapter is working..
does the scsi hard-drive CONTINUE to work correctly?
:
:i have heard that freebsd does not support media vision cdrom, and i have
:heard that it doesn't support ncr devices.
eh?
however you might look at upgrading now that 2.1 is out..
bugs were taken from many scsi parts..
:
:i am using free-bsd 2.0.5. any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
please try get the correct error message....
it should be stored in /var/log/messages
(or use dmesg to save it to a file)
:
:regards
:craig beasland
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