From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 13:44:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30481522E for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 13:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA82913; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:44:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912092144.WAA82913@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Is there any way to use ATAPI CD-R? In-Reply-To: <19991209214313.H65692@daemon.ninth-circle.org> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Dec 9, 1999 09:43:13 pm" To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:44:38 +0100 (CET) Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru (Andrey A. Chernov), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -On [19991209 06:58], Andrey A. Chernov (ache@nagual.pp.ru) wrote: > >Do you have a plan to merge ATAPI as part of SCSI (CAM) interface as > >NetBSD already does? It will solve problems with all SCSI-only CD* soft > >automatically. > > I thought this was the original idea back then when work started on the > new drivers. No, the idea was to get all the lowlevel ata/atapi stuff sorted out and layered so that it was maintainable and extendable. You could add a CAM top to the atapisubsystem instead of the "native" atapi drivers, it would be more work for the disks (lots more). My priority is still to get all the lowlevel stuff stabilized, and to get support for various controller HW, including top notch performance. Also CAM has to be de-SCSIfied before any of this is possible, and frankly I dont se anybody having the time/knowledge to do that for the foreseable future... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message