Re: uniform ide patch, funai cdrom and bp6

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 19:23:35 EST


Please try ide.2.2.15-13.20000308.patch and let me know...

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Jonas Munsin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In ide.2.2.15-9.20000221.patch a change in drivers/block/ide.c was introduced
> (compared to ide.2.2.15-5.20000127.patch) that causes my cdrom not to be
> recognized any more (a 8x Funai e2850) on my Abit bp6.
>
> It worked with the stock BIOS, but with all updates I've tried, including the
> latest beta version and the latest recommended version it fails - the stock
> BIOS also recognized my cdrom without the hda=cdrom option, the later ones do
> not. The stock BIOS also got the cdrom recognized by name (now
> /proc/ide/hde/model is empty). On the other hand, I remember having to
> initialize this drive with loadlin and its msdos drivers on some 2.0.x kernels,
> so I don't know if the drive or the BIOS is to blame, or if this is a bug in
> the patch...
>
> Fix:
>
> --- drivers/block/ide.c.orig Tue Mar 7 01:44:25 2000
> +++ drivers/block/ide.c Tue Mar 7 19:07:25 2000
> @@ -2800,9 +2800,7 @@
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDOUBLER */
>
> -#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI
> init_ide_data ();
> -#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI */
>
> /*
> * Look for drive options: "hdx="
>
> --
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Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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