The following reply was made to PR kern/25659; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/25659
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:57:35 +0200

 On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:36:23AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
 > In message <20050611100243.GA2301@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
 > >
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 > >On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:12:02AM +0000, John Refling wrote:
 > >>    I have a pcmcia ide controller and drive
 > >>  package called "Data Disaster Recovery System
 > >>  for Notebooks" by ei, an Agate' company.  This
 > >>  had the same symptom of never seeing the disk,
 > >>  until I applied the first patch above, and all
 > >>  worked well!
 > >>  
 > >>     This is in NetBSD/i386 ver 2.02.
 > >
 > >Hi,
 > >can you try the attached patches instead (one for 2.0, one for 3.0/current) ?
 > >This should do the same thing as the patch in the PR, without busy-waiting.
 > 
 > 
 > I no longer have access to the equipment where I first encountered the 
 > bug.  I do have an old pcmcia hard drive that I can use to verify that 
 > the patch doesn't break things that used to work.
 
 If that's easy for you please do. I don't have any IDE PCMCIA stuff.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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