Re: PCMCIA CD-ROM does not work

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 10:11:13 EST


On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:52:50PM +0200, Thom Borton wrote:
>
> Hello everybody
>
> I have a Sony Vaio PCG-Z600NE with an external PCMCIA 4x CD-ROM drive,
> which used to work perfectly until around 2.4.18. With later kernels
> I did not succeed to get it running. I tried extensively with 2.4.22.
> As far as I remember, 2.4.19-21 did not work either.
>
> I have attached the syslogs for 2.4.18, 2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test7.
>
> Any idea what's wrong? Thanks for the help.

I'm not sure what broke it, but if you boot with "ide1=0x386,0x180 pci=off"
it works again. Not a perfect solution, but until someone does some
digging to find out exactly when it broke, we're stuck.

Dave

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Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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