From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 22 20:02:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA27344 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 20:02:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA27336 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 20:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00713; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:25:47 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199712230355.OAA00713@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: The Classiest Man Alive cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI LS-120 driver for 3.0-971208-SNAP In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:29:48 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:25:47 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On 23 Dec 1997, HAMADA Naoki wrote: > > : The LS-120 drive never support slices, because it is only a floppy > : drive. So supporting slices on the LS-120 drive makes no sense nether > : you use MS Windows et al. nor FreeBSD. > > Is this ATAPI limitation? No. As I stated in my original posting, it is a limitation of the 'wfd' (ATAPI removable) driver. It looks like it'll be fixed soon. > Do the parallel/ATAPI zip drives support > slices? The parallel Zip is a SCSI unit, and is handled by the 'sd' driver. The ATAPI Zip is a slightly strange animal, but it looks as though it *should* work with the 'wfd' driver, modulo a few changes. To use Zip disks from other drives, one of these changes has to be support for slices. mike -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ Remember, the race is long, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and in the end it's only with yourself. \\