On Dec 12, Udo Steinegger wrote
> Hello there 
> 
> Nowadays I am having problems with NetBSD 1.2.1/sparc and cdrecord.
> Well, making CDs with cdrecord (1.5a) on a sun sparcstation IPC running
> NetBSD 1.2.1 release and a Phillips CDD 2000 just worked fine for several 
> months. But for some strange reason I get this message when I try 
> to write a CD:
> 
> tweety /netbsd: cd0(esp0:6:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0xf85bf8a0 (flags 0x3, dleft 0, stat 0)], <state 1, nexus 0x0, phase(c 100, p 3), resid 0, msg(q 0,o 0) >
> tweety /netbsd: esp0: reselect from target 6 lun 0 with no nexus; sending ABORT
> tweety /netbsd: esp0: identify failed
> tweety /netbsd: esp0: SCSI bus reset
> 

Well, I also tried a cd recorder (a Ricoh one) on a sparc classic running
NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA, and the kernel could'nt even find this device (the
probe failed with these kind of messages). I tried different
cables/terminators without success. The same drive with the same cables worked
fine on a PC. It seems that the sparc scsi driver/hardware is a bit exigent
about the quality of scsi devices: I've got tons of problems with non-sun
scsi drives (even the prom could'nt find them). 

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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