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Date:      Tue, 13 Jan 1998 03:53:15 +0100 (CET)
From:      Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        scottm@cs.ucla.edu, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NEC 273 CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <199801130253.DAA13663@ocean.campus.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <199801130031.LAA03740@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Jan 13, 98 11:01:15 am"

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According to Mike Smith:
> > This is an ATAPI critter, but for some reason at bootstrap, there's
> > an out of phase error. Suggestions on how to debug it? (This should
> > mean: I'm willing to debug it, I'm willing to fix and patch the
> > driver, but how to I go about debugging?)
> 
> Grab the ATAPI CDROM documentation (SFF-8020, available from
> fission.dt.wdc.com IIRC), and apply yourself to sys/i386/isa/wdc.c.
> 
> You can build it as an LKM, which will make your life debugging somehat 
> easier (as you can load/unload it without rebooting).  
> 
> One question; does the drive work despite the error?

Just a note to say i've seen this error message too (I assume he means the
"atapi1.0: unknown phase" one). My CD (Goldstar x4) gets that, but works
just fine even so, it seems.

  /Mikael



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