Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:42:47 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: chtodd@seacoast.com (Julie Meyer & Carl Todd) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating support for an IDE tape drive Message-ID: <199708270642.IAA19765@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199708261147.HAA19102@apollo.worx.net> from Julie Meyer & Carl Todd at "Aug 26, 97 07:48:33 am"
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In reply to Julie Meyer & Carl Todd who wrote:
> Hi folks,
> From what I gather, FreeBSD doesn't yet support IDE (Atapi) tape
> drives (I have a Seagate tapestore 8000). I'd like to know if
> there's a way for me to hack a bit and create this support. I'd like
> some help figuring out which direction to go with this and what I
> might have to do to create support for this device. I assume that
> the problem lies in the kernel but imagine I may have to create a new
> device driver as well.
Look at the /sys/i386/isa/atapi.c and related files, there is hooks
for this in there allready, just the actual driver is missing...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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