Messages in this thread |  | | From | mlord <> | Subject | Re: CMD640B secondary interface | Date | Thu, 30 May 1996 18:38:46 -0400 |
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Amitay B Isaacs wrote: > > | Is it true that you cant connect a single CD-ROM as slave on the > | secondary port of a CMD640B? It works with DOS (if that means > | anything), but even won't with "hdd=cdrom". You'll get unexpected > | interrupts with status=0xff. > | > > If you check the code in cmd640.c in drivers/block, there is a routine > which checks for the secondary port secondary_port_responding(). Apparently > that routine returns 0xff inspite of device being present on the secondary > IDE interface.
I'll fix this for the next update. I'm also still looking for more folks who have seen the "Hmmm.. probably a driver problem" message.
-ml mlord@pobox.com (the Linux IDE guy)
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