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Date:      Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:17:53 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: CD-ROM on a Dell Inspiron 8000
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010722121753.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010721155751.00b15ea0@mail.blarg.net>

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On 21-Jul-2001 Derek C. wrote:
>  Has anyone gotten the TEAC CD-ROM builtin to work with 4.3? I am upgrading 
>  to stable right now, in hopes that will help, but anyone with this laptop 
>  who knows what to do to get it working, your help would be greatly 
>  appreciated....
>  
>   From my dmesg:
>  ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded

Mine works great..
acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E> at ata0-slave using PIO4

It doesn't do DMA though - I get errors reading files if I try.

Some people have said that the DVD/CDRW drives don't work unless you sleep for
60 seconds before booting the kernel (ie an autoload  delay of 60s)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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