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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!cambridge-news.cygnus.com!athena.mit.edu!raeburn From: raeburn@athena.mit.edu (Ken Raeburn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NEC CD-Readers Date: 28 Mar 1993 11:26:02 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 21 Message-ID: <RAEBURN.93Mar28062602@cambridge.mit.edu> References: <CHRISTIA.93Mar22142821@latenite.ssc.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: cambridge.cygnus.com In-reply-to: christia@latenite.ssc.gov's message of Mon, 22 Mar 1993 20:28:21 GMT In article <CHRISTIA.93Mar22142821@latenite.ssc.gov> christia@latenite.ssc.gov (Mike Christiansen) writes: Do the SCSI drivers work with the AHA controllers and the NEC CDR CD Rom Readers??? I've got an AHA1542B controller, and am using Julian's SCSI driver. I bought a NEC CDR-36, and was not able to get it to work with the Adaptec controller, under 386BSD, or DOS. Furthermore, when I called NEC tech support with some questions, they gave me the impression that the '36 would probably have the same SCIS disconnect problem I'd heard about for other NEC drives. (The short form of it is that the SCSI bus is unavailable while the drive is seeking or doing error recovery or what not, so other SCSI devices, like hard drives, are unavailable for maybe several tenths of a second at a time.) I took it back and got a Toshiba XM3401B drive instead. The drive seems to work fine so far, but the isofs code seems to lose on some disks, like Prime Time Freeware. (I haven't checked the latest patchkit for any fixes to this.)