I don't guess anyone I've sent documentation to has taken up support of 
this drive.  It's amazing that any of these things are still running, 
since I think they stop manufacturing them in 1994.  I don't think I 
have a machine that it will even work in any more.  I guess they were 
well-built drives.

The change you are suggesting is probably not the best, you probably 
need to fix it higher up to do multiple requests if nsect is > 4.  I've 
attached a patch.  It compiles, but I obviously can't test it.

Looking through the code, there's obvious SMP problems and a few other 
things.  I have a new machine with an ISA slot (I think), I might try to 
plug it in.

-Corey

Mauricio Martinez wrote:

>This patch fixes the kernel oops while trying to read a data CD. Thanks to
>Brian Gerst and Faik Uygur for your suggestions.
>
>It looks like the variable nblocks must be <= 4 so the read ahead buffer
>size is not exceeded (which is the cause of the oops). Changing its value
>doesn't seem to be the right way, but it makes the device work properly.
>
>Feedback of any sort welcome.
>
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