From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 27 14:10:54 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA04307 for current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:10:54 -0700 Received: from mailhub.cts.com (mailhub.cts.com [192.188.72.25]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA04292 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:10:51 -0700 Received: from io.cts.com by mailhub.cts.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #18) id m0smouk-000V0pC; Sun, 27 Aug 95 14:06 PDT Received: (from root@localhost) by io.cts.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA08288; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:06:55 -0700 From: Morgan Davis Message-Id: <199508272106.OAA08288@io.cts.com> Subject: Re: wd0 detect fails To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org, vak@cronyx.ru In-Reply-To: <199508271752.DAA24683@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 28, 95 03:52:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 864 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans writes: > > >So something has changed in the probing at startup that is causing it > >to miss the drives hanging off this older caching controller. > > Cdrom support was added. The following change looks wrong (but works > here): > > ... > > It is being fussier. than the old code about the bits that should be > zero and sloppier about the bits that should be one. I wouldn't have > expected this to matter for drives that meet the spec. > > The new code also has some changes involving the b_active state. These > seemed OK. If any changes are made to the source tree on this, let me know and I'll rebuild to try it against this Promise caching controller to see if it fixes it. I couldn't tell from your message if you diff'd the older (working/pre-CD-ROM) sources against current, or if those were changes made after receiving my report.