Thanks for the data point, and the need to check the module issue.
As a compiled in driver to the kernel it is correct, but the modules have
always been a problem.........
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, James Bourne wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, James Bourne wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have an ATAPI 36X CDROM:
>
> Hi again,
> I have found the problem I was having with the ATAPI CDROM. In Andres' last
> ide patch (ide.2.2.14.20000108.patch), the function get_info_ptr was changed
> in ide.c to including checking the number of sectors for the particular
> partition being mounted
>
> line ~1620
> -if(drive->present)
> +if ((drive->present) && (drive->part[minor].nr_sects))
>
> Resulting in:
> cafe:bash$ mount /cdrom
> mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device (mount syscall returned -ENXIO)
> cafe:bash$ dmesg | tail -3
> get_info_ptr: ide.c; major (22) minor (0)
> get_info_ptr: ide.c; drive->part[0].nr_sects == 0
> ide_open: ide.c; get_info_ptr returned NULL for 5632
>
> The drive->part[minor].nr_sects is 0 for the cdrom as the drivers are built
> as a module. Reverting this change fixes the problem...
>
> Here's the patch
>
> --- linux/drivers/block/ide.c.orig Wed Jan 12 11:06:56 2000
> +++ linux/drivers/block/ide.c Wed Jan 12 11:34:10 2000
> @@ -1617,7 +1617,8 @@
> unsigned unit = DEVICE_NR(i_rdev);
> if (unit < MAX_DRIVES) {
> ide_drive_t *drive = &hwif->drives[unit];
> - if ((drive->present) && (drive->part[minor].nr_sects))
> +/* if ((drive->present) && (drive->part[minor].nr_sects)) */
> + if(drive->present)
> return drive;
> }
> break;
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
> --
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