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Subject: Re: kern/12495: 3.1 install fails to detect Toshiba CDROM on AHA1740  adapter
In-Reply-To: <199907050933.DAA75628@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Jul 5, 1999  3:33:58 am"
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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:50:24 +0200 (CEST)
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As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ...
> [ If you don't CC messages to me, it'll take a lot longer to get a reply. ]

OK, done.

> >  Hi Ken,
> >  
> >  Thanks for your reply.
> >  
> >  On your question: yes, there was a 3.1 release CD in the drive during
> >  the boot.
> 
> Okay, that rules out that problem.
> 
> >  And you are right, the Toshiba drive is not exactly an ancient device.
> >  Not new either, it is a 4x
> >  cdrom.
> >  
> >  What puzzles me is the fact that 2.2.x has always worked just fine,
> >  I have multiple of the
> >  same Toshiba model in both my Intel and Alpha machines.
> 
> It's not as puzzling as you might think.  We don't wait for the CDROM drive
> to finish probing before we start booting.  So if sysinstall probes right
> away, it might not see the cdrom drive.

Right, I should have thought of that myself (from my adventures with the
Pioneer CD changer drive).

> The old SCSI layer probed things sequentially, so you would finish probing
> everything, no matter how long it took, before any booting took place.

Right. Maybe the install kernel should stick to sequential probing? 
I don't particularly like 'time dependent' probing with the variety of
hardware that is out there.

> >  I'll probably give 3.2-release a try next Saturday.
>  
> Good idea, it's possible that'll fix the problem, although I'm not so sure
> it will.

I'll post results later.

Wilko
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