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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:22:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
Cc:        =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Updated ATAPI/CAM patches
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202281221380.6492-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020228150805.T1827-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>

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where dod sis post his email..?
I never saw it....

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote:

> > Hmm, why do we need to add new layers and loss of functionality
> > to the ATAPI devices ?
> 
> Many many many people would like to be able to use cdrecord to burn data
> to cd's so that all the front-ends to cdrecord will work. It's much nicer
> than memorizing mkisofs commandline switches :-)
> 
> What functionality is lost by this ability?
> 
> > > > So here's my vote for a quick commit.
> > >
> > > No.  See below.  There are still problems with it.
> >
> > I'll quit the ATA/ATAPI development/maintenance if this goes in quickly.
> > There are alot of issues here that needs solutions. It will need a
> > *serious* maintainer that handles all aspects of it, especially
> > dealing with error reports for one thing, technically it needs
> > to be brought to a state where it works on alot more HW that seems
> > to be the case for now, and the integration into the ATA driver
> > should be dealt with a bit differently.
> >
> If it has so many problems... why not just clean it up? Just curious...
> 
> Ken
> 
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