I tried to solve the problem of IDE probing compatibility in this version.
When compiled without an ATAPI option, the wd driver is
fully backward compatible with 2.0.5. With ATAPI option,
the wdprobe becomes strictly weaker. That is, if wdprobe works
without ATAPI option, it will always work with it too.
Another problem was with the CD-ROM drive attached as a slave
in the IDE bus, where there is no master. All IDE CD-ROM
drives are shipped in slave configuration, and most users
just plug them in, never thinking about jumpers.
It works fine with ms-dos and ms-windows, and this
version of the driver supports it as well.
The eject op can now load disks. Just repeat it twice,
and the disk will be ejected and then loaded back.
The disc cannot be ejected if it is mounted.
Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko, <vak@cronyx.ru>
by me...
Original message:
This patch upgrades the ATAPI CD-ROM driver to version 1.3.
It has three bugs fixed:
1) The `controller not ready' message at startup and later.
It was caused by staled media change bit.
2) Incorrect shuffling of model string for some drives (NEC, Mitsumi).
3) Handling of drives which report itself as been of direct-access type,
instead of CD-ROM type.
There is one known bug which is not fixed yet -- probing
in absense of IDE disks. A work-around exists though (thanks Steve!).
If you have no IDE disks attached, then remove them from the kernel
config file to make the CD-ROM attach correctly.
Unfortunately, there is no way to disable them from the kernel
interactive config mode.
Reviewed by: sos (Soren Schmidt)
Submitted by: vak@gw.cronyx.msk.su (Serge V.Vakulenko)
