Re: 3 things working in -STABLE and not in -CURRENT

On 24/05/2005, at 7:29, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> On Tue, 24 May 2005 00:10:57 -0400, David Gilbert <dgilbert_at_dclg.ca>
> wrote:
>
>
>> I recently upgraded my laptop to -CURRENT from 5.4-STABLE.   
>> Curiously,
>> I have found 3 unrelated things that broke.  In each case, I have
>> recompiled any code I believe remotely responsible.
>>
>> 1) atacontrol reinit 1
>>
>> This command used to recognise the hot plug of my CDROM into my  
>> laptop
>> bay.  It now recognises that something is there, but can get no
>> version string from the probe and definately doesn't recognise the
>> drive.

Hmm, if you do a atacontrol detach ata1 then atacontrol attach ata1  
does that change the behavior ?

>> I suspect this is actually somehow related to ACPI ... as the
>> hot-swapability of the drive bay has depended on acpi.ko being loaded
>> in the past.
>>
>
> I've been corresponding with Soren about a very similar problem.  My
> DVD writer on ata1-master is not being recognized.  Instead, my
> CD-RW on ata1-slave is being configured as acd0.  I've been doing  
> daily
> upgrades (amd64), but still to no avail, and Soren seems to be stumped
> as well.

I don't think this is the same problem, yours seem to be interaction  
between the two drives that somehow makes the probe barf...

- Søren