Subject: Re: MO drive hookup
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@sci.fi>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/21/1996 17:16:49
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.

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