hi all,

Just FYI,  Manuel fixed my problem with the following patch:

--- /mnt/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/dev/ata/ata.c    Tue Oct 13 13:10:23 1998
+++ ata.c       Sun Nov 15 15:03:12 1998
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
        } else {
                wdc_c.r_command = ATAPI_IDENTIFY_DEVICE;
                wdc_c.r_st_bmask = 0;
-               wdc_c.r_st_pmask = WDCS_DRDY | WDCS_DRQ;
+               wdc_c.r_st_pmask = WDCS_DRQ;
        }
        wdc_c.flags = AT_READ | flags;
        wdc_c.timeout = 1000; /* 1s */


I have no idea in what shape this will finally make its way into
-current, and it shouldn't be taken as an official patch.  i'm curious
if it helps anyone else who (like Ken Hornstein) had CD-rom problems.