You know, I've noticed the same thing happening with my IPX.  I can't
even boot off it anymore from the boot PROM state.  I wonder if I've
fried it or if it has hit EOL.

I don't know when it went awry, just that it did.  I can't eject
the disk, nor can I mount it.  This is a veritable bummer considering
I'd like to extract some more sunos stuff from the 1.1.1 (solaris)
cd I have...

Paul Boven sez:
/*
 * Hi everyone,
 * 
 * Since a while (probably since 1.2G) I cannot use the cdrom on my
 * IPX anymore. When trying to mount it, I get an error:
 * wit387304# mount_cd9660 -o rdonly /dev/cd0c /cd
 * mount_cd9660: Input/output error
 * 
 * When I try to use it with XmCD and an audio-disk in it, my machine
 * panics with the message "esp0: nexus in reset state".
 * 
 * Is anyone else experiencing similar problems, or did my cdrom just
 * die?
 * 
 * dmesg-output:
 * NetBSD 1.2G (IPX) #0: Mon Jul 28 13:22:29 CEST 1997
 *     paul@wit387304.student.utwente.nl:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/IPX
 * dma0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x400000: rev 1+
 * esp0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x800000 pri 3: ESP100A, 20MHz, SCSI ID 7
 * cd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <SONY, CD-ROM CDU-8012, 3.1e> SCSI2 
 * 		5/cdrom removable
 * -- 
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Paul Boven, <e.p.boven@student.utwente.nl>  PE1NUT  QRV 145.575 JO32KF
 *           Lynx users have a "Right to follow a link", too!
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 */





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