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-   Tips for using cdu31a.c, the driver for Sony CDU-31A and CDU-33A CDROM
-   drives.
-  
-   Corey Minyard (minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com)
-  
-   Colossians 3:17
-  
-   The Sony interface device driver handles Sony interface CDROM
-   drives and provides a complete block-level interface as well as an
-   ioctl() interface compatible with the Sun (as specified in
-   include/linux/cdrom.h).  With this interface, CDROMs can be
-   accessed and standard audio CDs can be played back normally.
-  
-   WARNING - 	All autoprobes have been removed from the driver.
-  		You MUST configure the CDU31A via a LILO config
-  		at boot time or in lilo.conf.  I have the
-  		following in my lilo.conf:
-  
-                  append="cdu31a=0x1f88,0,PAS"
-  
-  		The first number is the I/O base address of the
-  		card.  The second is the interrupt (0 means none).
-  		The third should be "PAS" if on a Pro-Audio
-  		spectrum, or nothing if on something else.
-  
-   This interface is (unfortunately) a polled interface.  This is
-   because most Sony interfaces are set up with DMA and interrupts
-   disables.  Some (like mine) do not even have the capability to
-   handle interrupts or DMA.  For this reason you will see a lot of
-   the following:
-  
-     retry_count = jiffies+ SONY_JIFFIES_TIMEOUT;
-     while ((retry_count > jiffies) && (! <some condition to wait for))
-     {
-        while (handle_sony_cd_attention())
-           ;
-  
-        sony_sleep();
-     }
-     if (the condition not met)
-     {
-        return an error;
-     }
-  
-   This ugly hack waits for something to happen, sleeping a little
-   between every try.  it also handles attentions, which are
-   asynchronous events from the drive informing the driver that a disk
-   has been inserted, removed, etc.
-  
-   NEWS FLASH - The driver now supports interrupts but they are
-   turned off by default.  Use of interrupts is highly encouraged, it
-   cuts CPU usage down to a reasonable level.  I had DMA in for a while
-   but PC DMA is just too slow.  Better to just insb() it.
-  
-   One thing about these drives: They talk in MSF (Minute Second Frame) format.
-   There are 75 frames a second, 60 seconds a minute, and up to 75 minutes on a
-   disk.  The funny thing is that these are sent to the drive in BCD, but the
-   interface wants to see them in decimal.  A lot of conversion goes on.
-  
-   DRIVER SPECIAL FEATURES
-   -----------------------
-  
-   This section describes features beyond the normal audio and CD-ROM
-   functions of the drive.
-  
-   2048 byte buffer mode
-  
-   If a disk is mounted with -o block=2048, data is copied straight
-   from the drive data port to the buffer.  Otherwise, the readahead
-   buffer must be involved to hold the other 1K of data when a 1K
-   block operation is done.  Note that with 2048 byte blocks you
-   cannot execute files from the CD.
-  
-   XA compatibility
-  
-   The driver should support XA disks for both the CDU31A and CDU33A.
-   It does this transparently, the using program doesn't need to set it.
-  
-   Multi-Session
-  
-   A multi-session disk looks just like a normal disk to the user.
-   Just mount one normally, and all the data should be there.
-   A special thanks to Koen for help with this!
-   
-   Raw sector I/O
-  
-   Using the CDROMREADAUDIO it is possible to read raw audio and data
-   tracks.  Both operations return 2352 bytes per sector.  On the data
-   tracks, the first 12 bytes is not returned by the drive and the value
-   of that data is indeterminate.
-  
-  
-    Copyright (C) 1993  Corey Minyard
-  
-    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-    (at your option) any later version.
-  
-    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-    GNU General Public License for more details.
-  
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-  
-  /
-
-/*
-  
-   Setting up the Sony CDU31A/CDU33A drive interface card.  If
-   You have another card, you are on your own.
-   
-        +----------+-----------------+----------------------+
-        |  JP1     |  34 Pin Conn    |                      |
-        |  JP2     +-----------------+                      |
-        |  JP3                                              |
-        |  JP4                                              |
-        |                                                   +--+
-        |                                                   |  +-+
-        |                                                   |  | |  External
-        |                                                   |  | |  Connector
-        |                                                   |  | |
-        |                                                   |  +-+
-        |                                                   +--+
-        |                                                   |
-        |                                          +--------+
-        |                                          |
-        +------------------------------------------+
-   
-      JP1 sets the Base Address, using the following settings:
-   
-        Address         Pin 1           Pin 2
-        -------         -----           -----
-        0x320           Short           Short
-        0x330           Short           Open
-        0x340           Open            Short
-        0x360           Open            Open
-   
-      JP2 and JP3 configure the DMA channel; they must be set the same.
-   
-        DMA             Pin 1           Pin 2           Pin 3
-        ---             -----           -----           -----
-        1               On              Off             On
-        2               Off             On              Off
-        3               Off             Off             On
-   
-      JP4 Configures the IRQ:
-   
-        IRQ     Pin 1           Pin 2           Pin 3           Pin 4
-        ---     -----           -----           -----           -----
-        3       Off             Off             On              Off
-        4       Off             Off*            Off             On
-        5       On              Off             Off             Off
-        6       Off             On              Off             Off
-   
-                  The documentation states to set this for interrupt
-                  4, but I think that is a mistake.

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