On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Yeah, I already did that last night.
> 
> It seems that even though the BIOS can figure out the drive's IDENT, our
> driver cannot.  It issues the ATAPI_IDENTIFY (0xa1) command, and then it
> just times out after 10 seconds with status=0x50 (WDCS_DRDY | WDCS_DSC),
> error=0x0, mask=0x08, and bits=0x08.  On the retry, the status comes
> back with 0xd0 (WDCS_BSY | WDCS_DRDY | WDCS_DSC) and error = 0xd0.
> wdc_c.flags=0x131 on both attempts.

maybe you could try to bump the timeout ?
Also do you have a tape in the drive ? I seem to remember an issue like
that ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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