Re: The reset-on-eject fix

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:42, David Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:13:17AM +0100, David Pye wrote:
> > If via mechassault, or another game, there isnt a way to prevent the
> > reset-on-eject mechanism, as it's forced on you.
>
>   Yes, that's how I'm doing it.  Are you convinced that there's no way
> to work around it in this case?  Although I guess it's possible, it seems
> a little surprising.

Very much so.  Have a read of the PIC documentation on the xbox-linux site.

The PIC has two modes - one where it resets UNLESS you respond to its 
interrupt within a set period of time - MS dash uses this, and another mode, 
where it resets whatever you do.

You can put the pic into the second mode, but once it's there, there's no way 
to get it back into the 'dont reset unless I ignore your interrupt" mode 
short of a powercycle.

The xbox-ejectfix simply provides an interrupt handler which responds 
correctly to the PIC generated interrupt.  As I said above, the 
'reset-anyway' PIC mode gives you no chance to stop it (which games normally 
go for)

Do yourself a favour - either do the dash hack (if you must) or buy a modchip 
or tsop flash if you dont want games. Otherwise, you've no way to eject the 
drive tray ever ;)

Regards,

David


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