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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: ATAPI CDDA Extraction under FreeBSD
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Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 20:10:14 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199805181946.VAA00325@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at May 18, 98 09:46:26 pm
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> > i first want to see proper timeout handling on the IDE bus
> > (and i don't see anyone else going to implement it, so ...)
> 
> I'm looking at it, I need it for the CDR/RW support too, the problem
> is that there is no good way to awake a hung ATAPI device, other
> that flicking the switch :(

no reset command or so, and re-running the init sequence ?
But i also suspect you are right, at times i get some inconsistencies
that not even the hard reset cures, i have to cycle power.

> When I'm done wcd.c will look very different from todays model...

i am not sure this is good news :) since you are probably working on
-current and it will take some time before these patches hit -stable,
right ?

> You wont gain much performance in disk accesss speed, but you gain
> alot by freeing the CPU during the transfers...

oh yes, and also the stability issues seem to be solved from other
comments i received...

	cheers
	luigi

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