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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: JAZ SCSI hacks? Date: 2 Apr 1997 00:34:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5hs9jd$kja@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5ho11o$qsh@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38342 tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) wrote: > Is there a way for me to customize a driver for this device? > Its really annoying to get all those crazy errors... Try assigning it to the `od' driver. This requires a new record in /sys/scsi/scsiconf.c. > Mainly I want the drive to be detected at the correct capacity all the > time, withought media having to be in it. That's probably not possible. Without a medium in the drive, the drive will simply not be able to report any useful capacity at all. This is quite logical, consider that the drive might be built to handle cartridges of different capacities. It requires the presence of a cartridge in order to know what to report at all. (I've even observed this phenomenon on MOs of supposedly equal capacity already.) -- 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. ;-)