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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1998-03-18 17:17:51 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1998-03-18 17:17:51 +0000
commitf1382dc4850bb459d24a81c6cb0ef93ea7bd4a79 (patch)
tree225271a3d5dcd4e9dea5ee393556abd754c964b1 /Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd
parent135b00fc2e90e605ac2a96b20b0ebd93851a3f89 (diff)
o Merge with Linux 2.1.90.
o Divide L1 cache sizes by 1024 before printing, makes the numbers a bit more credible ...
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+++ b/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd
@@ -224,10 +224,8 @@ a. Drive is not detected during booting.
- If the autoprobing is not finding your drive, you can tell the
driver to assume that one exists by using a lilo option of the
form `hdX=cdrom', where X is the drive letter corresponding to
- where your drive is installed (see section 2). This is required
- for CDROM drives such as the Pioneer DR-A24X, which do not properly
- identify themselves as ATAPI CDROM drives. Note that if you
- do this and you see a boot message like
+ where your drive is installed. Note that if you do this and you
+ see a boot message like
hdX: ATAPI cdrom (?)
@@ -281,7 +279,16 @@ b. Timeout/IRQ errors.
there are hardware problems with the interrupt setup; they
apparently don't use interrupts.
-
+ - If you own a Pioneer DR-A24X, you _will_ get nasty error messages
+ on boot such as "irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }"
+ The Pioneer DR-A24X cdrom drives are fairly popular these days.
+ Unfortunatly, these drives seem to become very confused when we perform
+ the standard Linux ATA disk drive probe. If you own one of these drives,
+ you can bypass the ATA probing which confuses these cdrom drives, by
+ adding `append="hdX=noprobe hdX=cdrom"' to your lilo.conf file and runing
+ lilo (again where X is the drive letter corresponding to where your drive
+ is installed.)
+
c. System hangups.
- If the system locks up when you try to access the cdrom, the most