From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 16:02:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA07534 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:02:38 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07528 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:02:27 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA09112; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:36:18 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:36:17 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Serge V.Vakulenko" cc: simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk, davidg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta version of IDE CD-ROM driver ready In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Jul 1995, Serge V.Vakulenko wrote: > > 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. I am getting this behaviour on wcd0 (I don't have any IDE disks at all). Is there a quick hack I can use to get past the probe? > > Yesterday I got a copy of ATAPI specs, and next week I plan make > a new, much enhanced version of the driver. I look forward to it! -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939