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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:29:33 -0600
From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
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To: "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
CC: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Yamaha 4260t doesn't support synchronous?
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José Mª Alcaide wrote:
> 
> Mark Powell wrote:
> >
> > I've juat got a Yamaha 4260t CD-RW. At bootup 3.0-RELEASE says something
> > like "drive refused synchronous negoitation using asynchronous transfers
> > instead." Is this usual behaviour for this drive? Seems strange. I thought
> > async stuff was old hat?
> > Cheers.
> >
> 
> I have a Yamaha 400t CD-R (one year old). Booting 2.2.7-STABLE:
> 
> ahc0:A:6: refuses WIDE negotiation.  Using 8bit transfers
> ahc0:A:6: refuses synchronous negotiation. Using asynchronous transfers
> (ahc0:6:0): "YAMAHA CDR400t 1.0i" type 5 removable SCSI 2
> 
> I think that sync transfers are not important with this type
> of SCSI devices. BTW, my Yamaha CD-R works flawlessly.

FWIW, I have a 4x SCSI-II drive that also refuses to go sync. Again, it
worked great.
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