On Wed, 22 Mar 95 12:23:03 -0700 
 mike@cs.utah.edu (Mike Hibler) wrote:

 > Is it a command or data transfer that is hanging/failing?  I suppose the
 > drive could be defaulting to sync mode (though this would be counter to
 > the spec I think) but that would only affect data transfers.

Well, after dinking with this a bit more, it appears that commands fail.  
Forcing a sense request, read, whatever (I even tried sending a start) 
all fail.  All of these succeed if the proms probe for bootblocks on the 
disk first.

Fishy.

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