Subject: Re: mount_cd9660
To: Michael L. Hitch <osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu>
From: Dave Blaszyk <dvb@ycc.Kodak.COM>
List: amiga
Date: 09/13/1995 15:15:37
Michael L. Hitch writes:
> On Aug 29, 2:53pm, Neville Duguid wrote:
> > Does anyone know why the command
> > # mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd0a /cdrom
> > always replies:
> > mount_cd9660: Invalid argument
> > (yes, there is a /cdrom directory in my boot partition)
> ...
> > a: 1267340 0 ISO-9660 # ( Cyl. 0-12673*)
> > block size 0
> > super block size 0
> > partition a: partition extends past end of unit.
> >
> > Has anyone else struck this problem? I have an A1200 with
> > internal IDE for the Hard Drive and 12-Gauge (CSA) SCSI
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > for the CDROM.
>
> There's the problem: the 12-Gauge driver has a bug when doing pseudo-DMA
> transfers. If you use binpatch to set _sci_no_dma to a non-zero value,
> that may fix your problem.
>
> Michael
I would agree with this, if and only if, the following scenario is
true with regard to the IVS driver. I have an IVS Vector card and I
have the same problem.
NOTE: If I use a kernel from early july, there are no problems, with
a more recent kernel, there is definitely problems.
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