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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:24:43 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        sheldonh@iafrica.com (Sheldon Hearn)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?
Message-ID:  <199903021024.LAA83946@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <406.920369470@axl.noc.iafrica.com> from Sheldon Hearn at "Mar 2, 1999 12:11:10 pm"

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It seems Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older
> driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and
> ad1. This is "expected" behaviour, but it's something for other weenies
> to watch out for. :-)

I warned about that in the anounce :)

> Sadly, cdcontrol still doesn't work with the newer driver and my
> braindead Creative Labs Infra36 CDROM drive. My older quad speed HITACHI
> still works. I noticed that the error message has changed, though. I
> used to get
> 
> cdcontrol> play
> cdcontrol: Input/output error
> 
> Now I get
> 
> cdcontrol> play
> cdcontrol: Unknown error: 84

Hmm, you could try to enable the debug in atapi-all.c & atapi-cd.c
and mail me the output of that. The unknown error is because the
new driver doesn't translate the atapi errors to errno errors yet.

> I guess no amount of programmer cleverness is going to get around crap
> hardware. Still, if you want me to try things with the hardware I've
> got, I'm happy to try. I'd offer you shell access, but South African
> connectivity isn't the best. :-)

:) lets see what we can do before that, I still have alot of little
things I need to get in there, this is just to get people banging
on the driver to get feedback early in the development cycle.

-Søren


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