Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:35:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Re[2]: [2.1.47] patch to avoid the ATAPI CD locking at boot |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 tigran_aivazian@dsti.co.uk wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Aaron Tiensivu wrote: > >>> Description of the problem (you must have an ATAPI CD to try the following >>> it): >>> 1. Reboot your machine >>> 2. Wait lilo prompt >>> 3. Before boot linux open your ATAPI CD-ROM (as you want to insert a CD, >>> you can also insert a CD) >>> 4. Don' t close the CD-ROM with the eject button, but leave it opened >>> 5. With the CD-ROM opened start linux from lilo (that is waiting from >>> point 2). >>> 6. When the boot is finished and you are logging into your system try to >>> open the CD-ROM with the eject button (the same you pressed at point 3 >>> to open it) >>> 7. The CD is locked >After exactly these steps I had my CD-ROM locked but... under windoz95 thingy. >The CD-ROM is old 4x Panasonic.
I reported not only the problem, but the patch too.
Please now try to apply my patch to the kernel and tell me if it works.
Andrea Arcangeli
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