From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 20 21:32:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD41837B71F for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:32:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2L31vO00905; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:01:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103210301.f2L31vO00905@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI-over-* hacks In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:11:34 +0100." <20010319151134.A89803@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:01:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi hackers, > > Has anyone implemented/thought of implementing: > - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; Yes. It's not a lot of work. > - a CAM transport for USB scanners; No; this wouldn't make much sense, since most USB scanners aren't SCSI devices. > - the Linux SCSI generic device (/dev/sg*)? We already have a far superior mechanism (/dev/pass*) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message