On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:02:06PM -0400, maximum entropy wrote:
> 
> I recently bought an HP CD-RW unit.  When it's hooked up to either of
> my SCSI busses, I get strange messages during the boot process:
> 
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
> probe(ahc0:0:0): SCB 1d - timed out in Message-in phase, SEQADDR == 0x153
> SCSIRATE == 0xf
> probe(ahc0:0:0): BDR message in message buffer
> probe(ahc0:0:0): SCB 1d - timed out in Message-in phase, SEQADDR == 0x153
> SCSIRATE == 0xf
> probe(ahc0:0:0): no longer in timeout, status = 0
> ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted
> ahc0: target 6 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
> cd1 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <HP, CD-Writer+ 9200, 1.0e> SCSI4 5/cdrom removable

Hm. Is there actually anything at target 0? Your CD-RW is at target 6,
and seems to be probing just fine. If it's somehow also responding to 0,
than something weird is going on.. Maybe try checking things like
termination in the BIOS settings ("termination for single-ended devices").

- Frank