I just noticed after trying to mount the cdrom .. that the system did not
'configure' the device for use on last boot. I ran through dmesg and there was
no cd0 at all again..This is after I applied the patch that Manuel Bouyer sent
me making the timeout a little longer. Im going to try it again maybe with
double the new 'timeout' see what that gives me. Has anyone else had this
happen ? It only happens when there is no media in the drive.


On 07-Apr-99 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Apr 7, dbsaint@bellsouth.net wrote
>> Ive been getting some strange messages upon boot. I dont think UDMA is w
>> orking every boot . actually sometimes my cdrom is not even detected. As the
>> first example depicts this. Notice no cd0 !!
> 
> Did you notice if this is related to the media present in the drive, if any ?
> Could you try to bump the delay() in sys/dev/scsipi/atapi_wdc.c:
>         /* Some ATAPI devices need a bit more time after software reset. */
>       delay(5000);
> 
> 5000 is 5 milliseconds. Maybe 100 or 200ms would be enouth ...
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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