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Date:      Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:51:43 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        Junichi Satoh <junichi@junichi.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip 
Message-ID:  <199906071851.LAA00571@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:19:55 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906071105050.10703-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> 

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> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Junichi Satoh wrote:
> 
> > Hmm...
> > 
> > I have an ATAPI ZIP drive:
> > ========================================================================
> > wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <IOMEGA  ZIP 100       ATAPI/23.D>, removable, intr, iordis
> > wfd1: medium type unknown (no disk)
> > wfd1: buggy Zip drive, 64-block transfer limit set
> > ========================================================================
> > 
> > It does not work with your patch. It's a buggy drive.
> > 
> > Probably, using only strcmp() is not enough.
> > We shoud distinguish buggy or not using revision number.
> > 
> > #I don't know how many revisions are available. :-)
> > ---
> > Junichi Satoh	junichi@junichi.org
> > 		junichi@jp.FreeBSD.ORG
> > 
> 
> 12.A, 21.*, and 23.* are known to be buggy...13.A doesn't appear to be.
> Since the current method of sorting out the revisions doesn't seem to 
> be perfect, would it be acceptible to consider them all buggy unless known
> not to be (i.e. compare ap->revision instead of ap->model)?

Uh, that's what the code does; if it's a Zip drive, it's considered to 
be buggy regardless of revision.  If the string compare isn't matching 
a drive in the field, it means that Iomega have changed the string and 
we need to know what the new drives are calling themselves.

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