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From: hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: SCSI drivers do a TEST_UNIT_READY..
Date: 7 Oct 1993 01:34:13 GMT
Organization: The University of Waikato
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Hi all, can someone enlighten me as to why 386BSD does a TEST_UNIT_READY
command first on each device and marks the device as absent without
an INQUIRY when TEST_UNIT_READY is an optional command. Does noone
out there use SCSI devices that don't do TEST_UNIT_READY.... Am I
just halluconating? Or is there a really good reason for this? I'm 
trying to get the WD7000 driver going on a Connor30170, and a Quantum
40M of some description that Linux will see, but the TESTUNITREADY command
times out on both devices...


ALso whay are the adapters set to address 0? I thought 7 was more 
standard.....

TIA.




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