Jason,

once I tried to attach an external CD-ROM drive to a HP400 machine ...
 ... mounting a disk worked without problems, but there were two other problems 
I experienced:

 - Audio does not work. I've compiled the Openwindows CD audio CD player
   "workman", it tried to access the CD, but couldn't initialize it.

 - a general Problem with external SCSI devices: the HP400 listis SCSI devices
   from sd6 down, NetBSD (in GENERIC) doesn't. So, if I'm attaching an external
   SCSI device, my "fstab" doesn't match at boot time.
   The NetBSD 1.2 Kernel documentation says something about an option 
   SCSI_REVPRI, but I couldn't get it run in that way ...

regards, Alex


According to Jason Thorpe:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:56:18 -0500 
>  joe@highway1.com (Joseph Sarkes) wrote:
> 
>  > On a related note, what type of scsi cdrom support currently 
>  > exists in NetBSD? I can't seem to get it to work on my scsi 
>  > cdrom. Is there a particular setup needed, or is it for some 
>  > particular cdrom drives?
> 
> In NetBSD in general, SCSI CD-ROMs are quite well supported.  In the hp300
> port, which doesn't yet use the MI SCSI code, CD-ROMs are supported, but
> a kludge.
> 
> I have a SCSI CD-ROM on my 380, and it works fine:
> 
> sd3 at oscsi0 targ 4 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD-ROM XM-3301TA, 0272> (SCSI-2)
> sd3: CD-ROM, 249596 blocks, 2048 bytes/block
> 
> Note that it is reported as a "SCSI disk" ... this is the kludge I
> mentioned earlier.
> 
> What sort of problems are you experiencing with yours?  Specific error
> messages are helpful...
> 
> I hope to embark on a new SCSI driver "soon", but, as always, time plays
> a key role... (sigh)
> 
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