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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: My cdrom disappeared with the new ata-all.c :-(
In-Reply-To: <14859.1104.90246.424231@moriarity.grauel.com> from Richard J Kuhns at "Nov 9, 2000 03:08:48 pm"
To: rjk@grauel.com (Richard J Kuhns)
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It seems Richard J Kuhns wrote:
> I just built and installed a new kernel on my laptop, and it couldn't find
> my cdrom.  There were no error messages; dmesg just doesn't show ata1.
> 
> This was with ata-dev.c v1.50.2.11.  I reverted to v1.50.2.10 and rebuilt,
> and everything was fine.
> 
> Let me know if there's any way I can help...

*SIGH* This is a no win game, its incrediable how crappy hardware
can be made these days :(

However, could you try this patch and if it doesn't work up the
DELAY further to say 50000 ? The problem here is that lots of
other ATAPI devices hangs if the delay gets much bigger than that...


Index: ata-all.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c,v
retrieving revision 1.50.2.11
diff -u -r1.50.2.11 ata-all.c
--- ata-all.c	2000/11/09 10:47:29	1.50.2.11
+++ ata-all.c	2000/11/09 20:35:46
@@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@
     DELAY(1);
     inb(scp->ioaddr + ATA_STATUS);
     outb(scp->altioaddr, ATA_A_IDS | ATA_A_RESET);
-    DELAY(10000); 
+    DELAY(30000); 
     outb(scp->altioaddr, ATA_A_IDS);
     DELAY(100000);
     inb(scp->ioaddr + ATA_ERROR);



-Søren


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