Re: Drivers situation

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Giorgio Terzi wrote:
> 2) Buddha IDE driver has a problem on my computer: when reboot
>    it locks the process of restart and i must switch off the machine
>    and then (naturally) on. This problem is described in its docs in 
>    the kernel's source block devices directory, but i wish to know 
>    if there is someone that is improving it.
>    I have tried to remove the $FC0 write instruction because ,as of
>    that docs, it is used only with buggy hardware. The driver ignored
>    my modify continuing to work normally after the new kernel's 
>    compilation and bootstrap, but the reboot problem still remains.     
>    Do you know something about ? 
>    Any suggestion ?

All I know is in the README. I wrote the driver according to the README, and
that's it (I don't have a Buddha or Catweasel).

I think you best ask the manufacturer of the Buddha. His email is somewhere in
the README.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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