atapifd/afd0 issue.

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri May 2 08:12:38 PDT 2003


In message: <200305020557.h425vS73056299 at spider.deepcore.dk>
            Soeren Schmidt <sos at spider.deepcore.dk> writes:
: It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote:
: > 
: > FreeBSD 4.8
: > 
: > I have this cool little gizmo that reads a bunch of different
: > media formats, plugs into an IDE channel, and at least loads the kernel
: > from the device, but can't mount root.
: > 
: > http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ide_ultra_digidrive.asp
: > 
: > I have atapifd in the kernel, but the messages I get are:
: > 
: > afd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 error=0x04
: > afd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 error=0x04
: > afd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 error=0x04
: > afd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 error=0x04
: > afd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 error=0x04
: > afd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 error=0x04
: > afd0: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 like IICA-1/01-12-17> floppy device - NO DRIVER!
: 
: This suggests that the device does not support reading the capabilities
: page. You will probably need a hack like the one present for the
: IOMEGA Clik! in the atapi-fd.c driver.
: 
: Seems this device is just as non-standard compliant as the IOMEGA
: product it tries to emulate :(

IOMEGA sucks in this reguard.  I don't think they believe in the read
capabilities page for any of their products.

Warner


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