On some versions of the firmware you have to specify that the drive is 
bootable. Also if it is reporting it as a RA80 then you have earlier 
firmware. Later versions will report any CD as an RRD40.
--Chuck

At 11:13 AM 7/22/01 +0200, you wrote:
>On 22 Jul, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>
> > the CMD card is the only thing in this box, i took the TK50 controller 
> out, so
> > the CMD sees the CD-ROM drive as a tape device??  that's, uhm, well, i 
> don't
> > even know what to say. :)
>Reconfigure the SCSI adapter with its internal setup?
>But I tried the same with a Dilog MSCP SCSI adapter. The Toshiba CDROM
>is seen as RA80. I can mount CDs when NetBSD is booted. But I can not
>boot a VMS 7.2 CD what will boot on my VS4k90 with the same type of
>CDROM drive.
>--
>
>
>
>tschuess,
>           Jochen
>
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