TESTERS WANTED for ATAng preview 1

[Doug White]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Soeren Schmidt wrote:

> It seems Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Soeren Schmidt wrote:
> > > It seems Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > > > ata1: spurious interrupt - status=0x7f error=0x7f reason=0x7f
> > > > ad0: 19881MB <Maxtor 6E020L0> [40395/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
> > > > acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152A> at ata1-slave PIO4
> > >
> > > OK, your CDROM doesn't like to be a sole master it appears...
> >
> > I hate it when people respond with this, but I'm going to join them and
> > say "It works under Windows"... Also, under the new code, this problem
> > prevents the booting of the machine, but under the old code the machine
> > carries on booting after giving up on the drive.
> >
> > Is it possible for this failure mode to not prevent the booting of the
> > machine at least?
>
> Of cause, I'm looking at that right now actually, but all my ATAPI
> drives seems to work unfortunately :(

I found a Pioneer drive that is equally picky. I replaced it with a Sony
that is happy as a clam.  YMMV? :)

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