Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 06:26:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org, bill@duchess.wagill.com Subject: Re: misc/1515: Unable to install 2.1.5 from CD-ROM. Message-ID: <199608281026.GAA23246@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: <1210.841224257@critter.tfs.com> (message from Poul-Henning Kamp on Wed, 28 Aug 1996 11:24:17 %2B0200)
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>> Didn't we remove mcd1 ? could that be the problem ? > >I don't see why. mcd0 should still be tweakable, unless >there's some bug which thwacks mcd0 if mcd1 is missing?! Looking at the CVS log and diffs, there were quite a number of changes since 2.0.5-RELEASE, some of which have to do with tracking the drive status. A behavioral change I noticed "recently" is that I have observed the drive to no longer eject in response to the button when the disk is mounted. My suspicion is that there has always been some sort of race condition, perhaps even in the hardware, that causes the Mitsumi sometimes not to know there is a CD in the drive. Cycling the door used to change its mind, but perhaps more recent changes to the driver have now blocked this type of workaround. I can't say too much more that isn't basically wild speculation. - Gene
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