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From: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral)
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Subject: ATAPI CD-ROM driver
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:39:22 -0400 (WST)
In-Reply-To: <199608212133.OAA29797@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Aug 21, 96 02:33:02 pm
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> From: Yuri Shemanin <yuri2@stu.neva.ru>
> 
> I'm not sure that info is of any value, but I've resolved my CD problems
> with following change in atapi.c (atapi_wait() function):
> 
> 397c397
> < 	if (cnt <= 0 && (s != 0xff))
> - ---
> > 	if (cnt <= 0)
> 
> I have GoldStar 542B & 2.1.5R and there were big problems with its recognition
> while booting. Fast investigation showed that the hellish device returned 0xff
> byte instead of unsetting BUSY bit while probing, so not being any kind of
> ATAPI expert I used the above dirty hack. After that I have one extra
> message "unknown phase" at console but all problems flied away.
> 
> Regards, Yuri.
> 
> P.S. CD worked well under OS/2 & DOS.

Yeah, same as me. The drive work with the standard OS/2 driver, so FreeBSD
one ought to work.

Now, could you please gimme a context diff (diff -c) instead of the standard
one above? That line number has little meaning by now on my patched atapi.c.
:-)


-- 
Daniel C. Sobral                (8-DCS)
e8917523@linf.unb.br

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