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From: mikem+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Sony R/W Optical on DS3100
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Date: 18 Mar 90 22:47:55 GMT
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Its not documented, but if you do
scsi ?
at the boot prompt, you see lots of interesting options, including
formatting a device.
scsi pb
will Probe the Bus,
scsi rs
will reset the bus.  All of this is quite useful.

                            Michael M. Meyer
                      Statistics/Academic Computing
                       Carnegie Mellon University.