Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 19:26:37 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI patch please? Message-ID: <199803141826.TAA09531@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <010001bd4f70$f8381b80$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu> from Alfred Perlstein at "Mar 14, 98 12:45:23 pm"
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In reply to Alfred Perlstein who wrote:
> is there some way to unwedge my ATAPI cdrom? i pressed the play button on it
> while it was being used by a program... the driver doesn't seem to like a
> manual override.
>
> rebooting is not a problem(just an irritation), but every process that tries
> to access the drive gets stuck in "D" state now.
>
> maybe on a long enough wait the driver could force a total reset of the
> device?
I have a routine that does this for the atapi tape, I'll put it on
my TODO list for the cd driver...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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