On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:03:23PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> Actually, a couple of developers have pre-ATA Conner disks, which seem
> to have worked with the bug.  I guess they were lucky.  :-)

The effect of the bug is to use the first byte of the data register as boolean.
If the data register contains 0, the drive will probe properly.

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