From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 9 19:08:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28250 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:08:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28099 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA06648; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:06:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802100306.TAA06648@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Satoh Junichi cc: kmitch@cslab.vt.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip/CD and Stable/Current In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:44:22 +0900." <199802100244.LAA13370@stone.astec.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 19:06:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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