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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 19:44:08 -0500 (EST) "Gregory D. Moncreaff"
<moncrg@bt340707.res.ray.com> writes:
>
>I've got a couple of IDE cdroms that, on boot/probe, 
>put a line as follows in the log:
>
>wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <NEC                 CD-ROM DRIVE:282/3.05>, 
>removable, dma, iordy
>
>(lots of whitespace between 'NEC' and 'CD')
>
>what I'm wondering about is if NEC has a strange string in its
>firmware or if atapi.c needs to clean up for this or both

It's the firmware. I've seen this on store-demo Packard Bells with NEC
drives...the BIOS itself shows the whitespace (yes, I'm the kind of
person who reboots store-demo machines...;).