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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.questions
Subject: Re: CDROM question
Date: 3 Jun 1996 22:29:55 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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References: <DsFCvs.KFM@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
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In article <DsFCvs.KFM@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>,
S DAVID PULLARA <davidp@cs.yorku.ca> wrote:
>
>[1] /kernel: cd0(aha0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:26,0 Invalid field in parameter list
>[2] /kernel: cd0(aha0:6:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0
>[2] /kernel: cd0(aha0:6:0):  Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
>[3] /kernel: cd0(aha0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:26,0 Invalid field in parameter list

The first thing to do with any problem related to SCSI is to check
all the connections and cables. It might also be worth checking that
the CD player is absolutely horizontal. I once had one that wasn't,
and it used to lock up the bus during heavy data transfers. However...

>Sony 4x cdrom (cdu-76s) (scsi)

...I seem to remember reading somewhere about Sony using a non-standard
version of the SCSI-2 protocol with their CD players. I hope I'm
wrong.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk         | jraynard@freebsd.org