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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Optical Drive and 4.05
- Message-ID: <psvp4ig@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 19:21:44 GMT
- References: <BuLy1p.7yu@resntl.bhp.com.au>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <BuLy1p.7yu@resntl.bhp.com.au> andrej@resntl.bhp.com.au (Andre Joanisse) writes:
- | I've just installed 4.05 on a PI which had a Tahiti2 Optical Drive from
- | Introl. I reinstalled the INTROL software as it needs to put in some
- | items in the kernel.
- |
- | I reboot, "Kernel Panic" due to a SEGV!!! 8-(
- |
- | I reverted to the kernel for 4.05 but of course I don't have access to
- | my data on the Optical Drive. I could go back to 4.01 but it would be a major
- | pain to uninstall the new version.
-
- I still haven't been able to find out what the Introl driver even
- exists for, but I've had other customers in similar positions just
- use the standard dksc driver and have no problems.
-
- There were kernel changes in 4.0.3 (in 4.0.5 also, of course) related
- to the r4000 that makes some drivers no longer work, presumably
- Introl's driver is one of them. You could of course, contact Introl,
- since they should be willing to support what they sold you, but it
- wouldn't be unreasonable for them to say "we don't yet support 4.0.5".
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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