Subject: Re: Adaptec 1742A/NEC Multispin 4Xe
To: Rick Jardine <jardine@jardine.math.uwo.ca>
From: None <Mark_Weaver@brown.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/20/1995 17:01:27
> I'm having trouble getting NetBSD-1.0 to recognize a NEC Multispin 4Xe
> cdrom drive on bootup. My host adapter is an Adaptec 1742A, which sees
> the 4Xe on powerup (but this only after disabling "Initiate Synch
> Negotiation" on SCSI ID 2, which is where the 4Xe lives). Everything
> runs fine under DOS, so at least something is working.

I have the same cdrom drive, and also had to disable sync negotiation
to get my Ultrastor 34F to see it.  However, once I did that, NetBSD
had no trouble detecting and using the drive.

	Mark
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