Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 17:03:27 -0400 (WST) From: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral) To: arver@sn.no (Arve Ronning) Subject: Re: 2.1.5R & ATAPI CDROM Problems Message-ID: <9608292102.AA19920@antares.linf.unb.br> In-Reply-To: <3225378B.2748@sn.no> from "Arve Ronning" at Aug 28, 96 11:24:11 pm
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Arve Ronning writes: > > By a combination of pure luck and some inspiration from Daniel C. Sobral > (thanks Daniel, your mail to 'hackers' 18 Jul generated some ideas), You're welcome. > A swift scan through the ATA-2 rev.3 draft revealed a mismatch > in atapi_wait_cmd() related to the interpretation of bits in > the AR_STATUS register. ATA section 6.2.12. says : > > "When the BSY bit is equal to one, no other bits in this > register and all other Command Block registers are not valid." I knew it had to be something related to flow control... > I think this should be included in future -SNAPs for the benefit > of owners of ATAPI CDROM drives that probe ok but malfunction > during install & use. In addition, some feedback would be nice; > anyone care to try it ? Are you kidding??? If that happens to work I'll finally get down to do something serious with it (FreeBSD)! And the timing is just about perfect: I'll be doing nothing but working with Net and Free for a month, starting just two days ago... :-) I'll give you feedback as soon as I can (i.e., in no more than 12 hours :). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) e8917523@linf.unb.br "Master, do we seek victory in contention?" "Seek rather not to contend, for without contention there can be neither victory nor defeat."
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