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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