----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Drochner" <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
To: <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 4:31 AM
Subject: (partial) success with IBM microdrive


> After I added some entry to the device table in wdc_pcmcia.c
> I got an IBM microdrive working. There are some diagnostic messages
> however which I'd better have explained...
> Anyone with a clue what these mean? And why are there two disks?
> (on i386/current)

I found that IBM micro drive ignores drive select command.
(Some of SanDisk ATA flash seems to ignore the command too.)
And some linux kernel have a code like below to resolve the
problem.

if (primary_drive_name equals 'SanDisk') {
    do not probe secondary drive;
}

Well, shall we do that?

Takemura