Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:02:44 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TESTERS WANTED for new ATAPI CD/CDR/CDRW driver. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980814145851.2111H-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199808141850.UAA00605@sos.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Alfred Perlstein who wrote: > > does this code have a watchdog to prevent ATAPI proccesses from tsleeping > > forever? > > No, this is only to test ATAPI burners, prober timeout & error handeling > is part of the new atapi subsystem, but that is not ready for primetime > yet. Why are you especially interested in that ?? uh, why not? it's kinda bad when i run some cdplayer and hit the manual eject or somehow confuse the lame atapi cd-drive and then i have to reboot to use it again. (all processes trying to do anything with it lock in disk activity if i remeber correctly) the problem is in the atapi driver, a call to "reset" mearly sleeps on the atapi device "becoming ready" there is no code to actually reset the device. since i barely understand atapi and i couldn't find any place where the driver actually does a HARD reset i don't know how to actually reset it. perhaps a hard reset on the IDE bus... but that sounds icky. -Alfred -- Programmer @ HotJobs Inc. [- http://www.hotjobs.com/ -] |-- There are operating systems, and then there's BSD. \-- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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