Re: [IDE] trying to make MO drive work with ide-floppy/ide-cd

[Pascal Schmidt]

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote:

> I'll check if reading from the MO drive works with ide-cd under 2.4
> as well. If it does: what about a patch that makes ATAPI MO drives
> and CD writers behave the same on 2.4: read-only with native ide drivers,
> read-write with ide-scsi?

I can now confirm that using the MO drive read-only with 2.4 and ide-cd
also works fine.

Could we please have this patch included in the 2.4 IDE code to make
MO drives and CD writers behave the same?

--- linux-2.4/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c	Mon May  5 21:25:32 2003
+++ build/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c	Tue May  6 16:03:28 2003
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ static inline void do_identify (ide_driv
 				break;
 			case ide_optical:
 				printk ("OPTICAL");
+				type = ide_cdrom;
 				drive->removable = 1;
 				break;
 			default:

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal