Re: pre8 and ATAPI ZIP

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:48:58 -0500


This failure is due to the broken strstr() function in pre8,
not an IDE driver bug.

If you select CPU == 586 or 486, it might work.

-ml

The Man wrote:
>
> Beginning with the pre-8 in testing/ and continuing with the real pre8, my
> ATAPI ZIP drive is detected as a cdrom. As such, it is unusable and
> pitches constant errors (if you need them, I'll send them, but the gist of
> things is that the ZIP doesn't like commands intended for a cdrom - no
> surprise). The drive works perfectly in pre7 and /proc/ide/hdc/model shows
> correctly "IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI" under pre7 and pre8, but reading the pre8
> patch was unenlightening...guess I'm missing something here. Any thoughts?
>
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