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[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 06 October 2002 15.34, zentara wrote:
> Hi,
> In 8.1 , what is the purpose of "raw" in the run-level editor?

The same as in 8.0. "raw" is a command that allows raw character access to 
block devices. "raw" in the run-level editor runs "raw" to set up a number of 
previously defined devices.

>
> Also:
> I have a scsi  cdrom and in the boot messages I get this:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------- ..sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: 0x43 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 0c 40 Current sr00:00: sns = 70  3
>  ASC=57 ASCQ= 0
>  Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x57 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: 0x43 00 00
> 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 Current sr00:00: sns = 70  3
>  ASC=57 ASCQ= 0
>  Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x57 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 ]
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------
>
> Everything seems to run OK, but was is this all about.
> I can't find an entry for raw in the docs.

A temporary read error. The numbers are debug output. Obviously the retry 
worked, otherwise it would have crashed at that point.

//Anders
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