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From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
Subject: Re: Problem with Julian's SCSI drivers
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In article <26reei$e4o@news.ysu.edu> ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) writes:
>  Julian's SCSI drivers don't seem to work on my 386bsd system.  I have an 
>Adaptec 1542b controller, and a compatible CD-ROM.  The CD-ROM is scsi address
>2, and is referred to as /dev/as2d.
                                 ^

There's your problem.  With Julian's SCSI drivers, the first device
found for each type is minor device number 0, not minor device number
<whatever it's SCSI address might happen to be>.  In this case, the
conventional device name seems to be /dev/cd0d.
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