From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 07:29:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA19280 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 07:29:42 -0700 Received: from gw.cronyx.msk.su (gw.cronyx.srcc.msu.su [158.250.244.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA19274 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 07:29:37 -0700 Received: by gw.cronyx.msk.su id SAA21229; (8.6.9/vak/1.9) Thu, 6 Jul 1995 18:25:13 +0400 To: simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk Cc: davidg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org References: <199507060945.NAA19213@gw.cronyx.msk.su> Message-ID: Organization: Cronyx Ltd. From: "Serge V.Vakulenko" Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 18:25:12 +0400 X-Mailer: BML [UNIX Beauty Mail v.1.39] Subject: Re: Beta version of IDE CD-ROM driver ready Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I tried out this driver, but it doesn't seem to work for drives on the > second controller (wdc1). Firstly, the controller isn't recognised by > wdprobe because the reset times out (presumably because there are no > hard disks on this controller). So I hacked around this and made some > more mods to get the drive probed & attached correctly, but any open > operations on the device just hang. Hmm... I did not try the second controller yet... Probably, you have a drive which does not interrupt before gettin a packet command. The driver of version 1.0 does not handle this properly. Yesterday I got a copy of ATAPI specs, and next week I plan make a new, much enhanced version of the driver. Serge --- Serge Vakulenko Cronyx Ltd., Moscow Unix consulting and custom programming phone: +7 (095) 939-23-23 FreeBSD support fax: +7 (095) 939-03-00 Relcom network development