RE: Upgraded from 2.2.5 (RH6) to 2.3.18---ATAPI CD-ROM freezes

Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:30:50 -0700 (PDT)


Where is the device, what is it, also the interface type by chipset and
mainboard.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Stuart Inglis wrote:

> > I suppose I know what causes the bug in 2.2.5, namely our
> > old enemy probe_cmos_for_drives().
> > This has always been a strange, buggy routine, but long ago
> > it bit fewer people, because not so many people had both IDE
> > and SCSI on one machine.
> >
> > Please try to disable probe_cmos_for_drives()
> > (by replacing the #ifdef __i386__ at the start by #if 0).
> > and report on whether 2.2.5 and 2.3.18 show improvement.
>
> I don't have the source to 2.2.5 handy and since 2.3.18 is the only one
> crashing I made the change you suggested in 2.3.18. Unfortunately it made no
> difference and the boot process halts at the same place.
>
> cheers
> Stuart
>

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