little more reliably. So far I've received a couple of positive
responses and no objections to these changes.
There are two one-line changes:
- In wdprobe(), when testing the error status of drives, don't
unconditionally decide that there is no controller present if we
read back a value of 0x81 (drive 0 okay, drive 1 failed) twice
in a row. This may be caused by having an ATAPI CD-ROM jumpered
as a master on the controller with no slave.
- In wdgetctlr(), when checking for a status of WDCS_READY, check the
value twice. The first time may be bogus. This stops a phantom wd2
device from being detected when an ATAPI CD-ROM is attached to the
secondary controller alone as a slave. (This can cause installation to
fail when sysinstall attempts to open the phantom device and wedges the
system as a result. This has bitten me a couple of times on some
Gateway 2000 machines.)
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