Trying to attach a Sony Optical disk to a DECstation 3100, help!

[Michael van Elst]

In article <11255 at milton.u.washington.edu> heldt at EECS.WSU.EDU (Tim Heldt) writes:
>According to the vendor you need to do a dd to activate the device before using it.  Unfortunatly the system which has the optical right now is in transit from a research project.  The vendor should be able to help you.

That's true. A dd will clear the unit attention condition that is entered
by the drive when a new disk is inserted.


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