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SubjectRe: 2.5.6 IDE oops with i810 chipset
Andre Hedrick wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>
> > Luigi Genoni wrote:
> > > Due to a lack of time i tried just 2.5.5, which worked very well.
> > > I get the oops while initializing the IDE controller, just after
> > >
> > > hdc: LTN485, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > >
> > > and before the expected:
> > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > >
> >
> > OK thank you very much this helps. I will actually have to fake the
> > detection on my system to think it's the same as yours...
> > One thing for sure: it's not dircetly inside the
> > PCI host initialization, so I wonder why this problem
> > doesn't occur to more people.
>
> You will soon learn about the way ATAPI removable media violate the rules
> of how the maintain their status and signal lines. However you already
> knew this information as I am wasting electrons

Can you get more specific ?

Do you mean
a) Some ATAPI devices violate the "ATA/ATAPI-4" NCITS 317-1998 standard (or
a newer version),
And your driver contained workarounds for these buggy devices? (And
Martins driver doesn't contain these.)
b) Your driver conforms to the standard, and Martin's driver does not?



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