Re: 2.3.43: IDE CD mount(8) hangs; ditto SysRq

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 01:48:51 EST


On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:

> Why doesn't it give trouble with revision 2.56 of the driver then?
>
> > > It is identified as CRD-8400C, ATAPI CDROM drive, alone on ide1.
>
> This is a generic (low-cost) CD drive, so the possible firmware (or other
> hardware) problems do sound possible.

It has nothing to do with "2.56"........everything to do with active
chipset tuning of 2.3.XX. The kernel corrects for BIOS failures.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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