Subject: Re: kern/22869: Slave IDE drive not detected
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/23/2003 21:09:46
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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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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