round 3 on errant ATAPI CDROM drive....
Glenn Burkhardt
glenn at aoi.ultranet.com
Fri Mar 20 18:06:28 EST 1998
More testing has revealed that the drive is not recognized by a 2.0.30
kernel during boot (hdc: no response (status = 0xd0)), on an older machine
(about 1 yr old), but with the boot prompt
linux hdc=cdrom
the drive could later be mounted, and a CDROM read from it. The message
hdc: ATAPI cdrom (?)
appears after boot. On this same machine, with no special re-configuration,
WinNT 4 can use the drive.
There apparently are different ATAPI protocol levels, but there seems have
been an explicit attempt made to make them backward compatible. I'm trying
to find out what version ATAPI protocol this drive supports, and also
to see what's in the 2.1 kernel for IDE/CDROM support.
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