Subject: Re: MO drive hookup
To: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@sci.fi>
From: Dirk Smulders <Dirk.Smulders@ping.be>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/23/1996 22:14:28
>On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>>  > >ncrscsi0 targ6 lun0 : <FUJITSU,M2511A,1300> SCSI0 7/optical removable
>>  > >sd2  at scsibus0sd2 (ncrscsi0:6:0) illegal request, data 00 00 00 00
>>24 00
>>  > >30 c0 00 02 80 20 01 00 00 00 c4 00 16 b1 e0 04 22 60
>>  > >sd2:could not mode sense (4)
>>  > >using fictitous geometry : 121Mb, 121cyl, 64head, 32sec, 512bytes/sect
>> Hmm ... same mode-sense problem that ZIPs have.  Maybe I'll look at this
>> today.
>
> This seems more to be a problem with the drive, it doesn't have a fixed
>geometry or such. My old Epson optical said this, but it could be safely
>ignored. No program can get the geometry out of it, and generally no mode
>sense page 4 at all.
>
I don't understand that netbsd recogizes the drive, it's type and then it
spits out the errors, and refused to work with it.
  Why do you suspect the drive (it seems to work fine on a Macintosh
running .....7.5MacOS