Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 19:06:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Satoh Junichi <junichi@astec.co.jp> Cc: kmitch@cslab.vt.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip/CD and Stable/Current Message-ID: <199802100306.TAA06648@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:44:22 %2B0900." <199802100244.LAA13370@stone.astec.co.jp>
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> > The PC itself is a Gateway model 3110 which is a Pentium II 233 machine > > with both a zip and a CDrom drive on the secondary IDE channel. If I > > disable the secondary IDE channel, then it will boot. 2.2.5 boots fine, but > > tries to put the zip drive on the CD driver and the end result is both > > the zip and the cdrom drive are inaccessible. > > > > It appears that something has changed in the IDE stuff that could be > > responsible for this lockup. Has anyone else seen this?? > > The ZIP drive reports AT_TYPE_DIRECT. > On FreeBSD 2.2.5R, wcdattach() is called when a AT_TYPE_DIRECT device is > found. If wcdattach() proves the ZIP drive, it may freeze. The problem is that at a later stage when the CDROM or Zip is being probed by sysinstall (we think the CDROM), the transaction is lost. I am not sure yet whether this is a quirk resulting from the way sysinstall does things or a genuine issue. (I don't have a Zip at the moment.) > To avoid it, there are two solutions. > > 1. Use wfd driver in RELENG_2_2 branch that supports ATAPI LS-120 and > ZIP drives. This is the initial case, where the system locks solid. Does anyone know which CDROM the Gateway 3110 machine uses? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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