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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: IDE Zip drive, challenge! 
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> ...This is precicely why NetBSD's ATAPI code uses the SCSI disk and cdrom
> drivers; in fact, most of the command sending and error recovery code,
> as well as the cores of the drivers, is shared between SCSI and ATAPI.
> 
> You may want to take a look at how we did it, to get ideas.

Make the CVS tree available so it's much easier to see how/why it was
done in NetBSD. :) :) :)


Nate