Subject: Re: The ghost of MicroDrive
To: None <takemura@netbsd.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 01/07/2001 16:46:07
In <001f01c0785d$eb015a80$0101a8c0@shin>
takemura@netbsd.org wrote:
> > I don't think this is PCMCIA/CF specific problem.
> > I saw this ghost on my arm32 (CATS) with an old Quantum
> > EIDE drive at pciide. (Some timing related problem?)
>
> I think the problem comes from drive. You can just ignore
> second drive because pcmcia IDE card generally has only
> one drive. But other IDE controller including pciide might
> have second drive. If you want to solve the problem on
> pciide, you should make list of all drive names which cause
> the problem and do strcmp to eliminate the ghost.
The ghost did not appear always. It *sometimes* appeared
on arm32 pciide but never on i386 pciide nor on macppc obio
with the same Quantum drive.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp