From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 26 7:50:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bobo.thehutt.org (pcp709198pcs.alxndr01.va.comcast.net [68.49.240.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB76F37B41E; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.3.13] (helo=nomad.thehutt.org) by bobo.thehutt.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17NE84-000B2S-00; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:50:44 -0400 Received: from jerry by nomad.thehutt.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17NE5Z-0001vz-00; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:48:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:48:08 -0400 From: Jerry A! To: rob Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" , sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA tags bug fix committed to -releng4/ Now SCSI emulation Message-ID: <20020626144808.GA7380@nomad.thehutt.org> Reply-To: jerry@thehutt.org References: <200206261012.g5QACW091684@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3D19CE2C.64E4BD28@pythonemproject.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D19CE2C.64E4BD28@pythonemproject.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Broken Toys Unlimited Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:22:36AM -0700, rob wrote: : Dave Hayes wrote: : > : > My question would be: why don't we have an interface to the more : > robust SCSI emulation layer of these devices? I recognize there is : > loss of speed to be endured, but the upside is that we could use : > a lot more drives on FreeBSD. : > : > ------ : partition, and enjoyed the ability to use its built in scsi emulation. : There was no loss of speed that I could discern. I believe all CDROM : devices are inherently SCSI, its just the I/O and pinout that changes. : Please correct me if am wrong. Burncd has worked for me, but it rules : out most of the gui based burner programs. Rob. Take a look at ATAPICAM . These patches accomplish what you're looking for. I've cc'd Soren in the hopes that he may be able to shed some light on if/when this functionality may be merged into the existing ATA framework. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message