I wrote:
> I'm trying to connect a Sony SMO-F521 optical drive to our DEC 3000/400
> running OSF/1 v3.0. The machine sees the optical drive, but strangely
> gives a device name of JKBxx in response to the SHOW DEV command.
> The other hard disks come as DKBxx devices (on the external SCSI bus).
> The system doesn't see the device during the boot. Any ideas how
> to get the OSF/1 system to recognize/deal with a JKB device?
The solution is quite simple. The "SCSI CAM Layered Components for DEC
OSF/1 V2.2" subset on the OSF/1 layered products CD has the necessary
software to support eraseable optical device types. Following a kernel
rebuild and after building the necessary device files, the Sony drive
works flawlessly.
Thanks to Tom Blinn at DEC for the answer.
Richard Eckman
NASA Langley Research Center
eckman_at_eos1.larc.nasa.gov
Received on Wed Jan 18 1995 - 19:15:59 NZDT