Re: floptical

Eric Youngdale (eric@her.platinum.com)
Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:02:53 -0400


>I got a floptical drive for a few days for testing. I used it with
>an normal HD Diskette.
>
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: Io20S *F Rev: 1.7
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
>
>Reading from this drive seems to work o.k. But writing to this devices
>fails. In syslog the kernel reports

With some MO drives, there is a magic cookie that you need to send
the thing before the drive will be accessible. There are some things in
scsi.c where we send this cookie for some IOMEAGA drives - you could start
by taking a look to see whether this is being used with this drive or not.
If not, it is worth a try to try and send this cookie and see whether that
does the trick.

-Eric

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