From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 9:10:37 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A210D37B718; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:10:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2EH94914875; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:09:05 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200103141709.f2EH94914875@harmony.village.org> To: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c ata-disk.h atapi-all.c atapi-all.h atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h atapi-fd Cc: Brad Huntting , Soren Schmidt , Josef Karthauser , "[S_ren] Schmidt" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:54:46 EST." <200103141654.LAA01585@mail.virtual-estates.net> References: <200103141654.LAA01585@mail.virtual-estates.net> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:09:04 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200103141654.LAA01585@mail.virtual-estates.net> Mikhail Teterin writes: : > > Perhaps, it'd be better to have the SCSI emulation layer? Then, not : > > only will the existing camcontrol be able to do this job, but : > > various SCSI-only utilities (like CD/DVD burning software) will be : > > able to work with IDE devices? Or is such layer A WHOLE LOT more : > > complex to implement? : > : > I believe this is the method used by OpenBSD. : : And Linux. The CAM folks tried to convince Soren of this, but he didn't seem too interested in it a few years ago. It has been talked to death in the past and unless there's someone willing to do the work, and they can convince Soren it is a good idea and likely come up with code to do it, I doubt it will happen. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message