Re: PROBLEM: ide ATAPI cdrom failing 2.2.14-12

From: Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 09:46:22 EST


On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 23 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > Get a newer kernel "Acer 50x ATAPI CDROM" is a broken ATAPI.
>
> Actually the ACER50 is right on the dot, it's just a bit weird because
> it doesn't accept a smaller mode sense capability page size ("normal"
> drives would just trunc the page at the given length).
>
> Andre is right, though, newer kernels will work-around this problem
> with the Acer.

And mentioned with the Acer 50x is my WPI-32S, which broke in the
2.2.17pre* series. I've temporarily given up on it and swapped in an Acer
24X, which works fine.

Still, it would be nice to know what took out the WPI..

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