Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:17:51 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: ASUS CD ROM 340 & 2.1.129+ dont work but work fine with 2.0.35+ |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > I had installed dos drivers for asus (but works with all atapi drivers ?? > > it worked with my old atapi goldstarcd driver and ibmcd.sys driver in dos ) > > > > and from dos i did: > > dir d: ; this only spins drive ( drive d is cdrom ) > > c:\linux\loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 ro vga=3 > > > > and it booted in linux-2.1.132 fine and it works great under linux > > In other words the DOS driver contains some workarounds for the faults with > the drive. Given running that first then booting Linux works, it would be > a reasonable guess from your previous observations that this driver fakes a CD > change or similar to fix the drive problem.
This is the second drive that has been reported to have this abnormal behavior. I'll be back in a couple of days and see if we can't get a decent workaround for this hardware bug.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * "The only thing that interferes with my * learning is my education." -- A. Einstein
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