tlug: ide_cs PCMCIA problem...?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

I've seen this twice now... including once last night on Jonathan's friend
Hiromi's letsnote PC... the 'Buffalo' IDE pc-card that seems to be
commonly sold along with a certain external CD drive and the Letsnote
notebook machines... intermittently works.  pcmcia-cs detects it, but says
'ide_register() failed at 0x(address), irq (irq)'.  However, if I boot the
machine with both this card and a 3c589 card in it, it usually works.  But
not always.

I emailed the PCMCIA author, David Hinds, and asked him.. he suggested
putting a spinup delay in the pcmcia config, which I'll try..  however, he
also said that the register fail is normal if there's nothing attached to
the card - so I'm thinking it might be the fault of the CD drive, not the
card?

Incidentally, i couldn't get Windows 95 to even recognize that there was a
card in the slot at all.  Then again, the second time I rebooted Win95, it
didn't recognize that there was a working PCMCIA controller in the system,
either.. sigh.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)
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