Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:02:44 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: optical drives Message-ID: <19970418020244.YD57137@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704171457.JAA00595@plains.nodak.edu>; from Mark Tinguely on Apr 17, 1997 09:57:29 -0500 References: <199704171457.JAA00595@plains.nodak.edu>
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As Mark Tinguely wrote: > notice his optical responses as a type 0 device, the drive I was working > with responds as a type 7 SCSI device: Except for some very old drives (like my SONY SMO), this is often jumper/DIP switch selectable. Type 7 is the intention per the SCSI specs, but they offer the compat switch so you can pretend a fixed disk for silly operating systems. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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