Re: CD-ROM problem in 2.1.71

[Erik Andersen]

This is a known and long-standing problem in ide-cd that has 
recently become much more apparent now that the Uniform CDROM driver is
asking ide-cd to do the right thing (return its status right away).
ide-cd foolishly waits until it has an OK status before returning its
status, so there is no way to find out if the door is open.  ide-cd needs
to be fixed, but I have been too busy at work recently to do this.  I will
work on this over my Christmas holiday, unless someone kindly fixes this
for me before then.  If anybody has a bit of time to burn on this, please
feel free to fix ide-cd...
 
 -Erik

The Linux cdrom and ide-cd guy

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On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Derrik Pates wrote:

> I am experiencing a fairly minor problem with the 2.1.71 IDE CD-ROM
> driver. If Quake or anything else tries to read from my CD-ROM drive
> (Mitsumi FX-600), I get large numbers of messages like these:
> 
> Dec  5 17:26:11 medusa kernel: hdc: tratray open or drive not ready
> Dec  5 17:26:11 medusa kernel: hdc: tray open or drive not ready
> 
> until I put a CD-ROM into the drive. Unlike in 2.0.32, it doesn't just
> display that a few times and fail, it just goes on until I put in a CD. I
> am using an Intel Zappa motherboard (Intel 430FX chipset, PIIX3 IDE
> controller, using DMA-enhanced IDE driver). The drive is on the secondary
> interface as master. If there's anything else that you need to know about
> my setup to nail the problem down, please e-mail me. I am not on the Linux
> Kernel mailing list right now, so please CC: me with any information. I
> don't know if you are aware of this problem yet or not, but I decided that
> incase you were not, I should let you know so it can be fixed. If this is
> a known problem, please ignore this message. Thank you much.
> 
> Derrik Pates
> [e-mail]
> 
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