From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 8 00:57:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA21800 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 00:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA21795 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 00:57:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA06864; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 00:57:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 00:57:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Giles Lean cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , doc@freebsd.org, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Subject: Re: ATAPI ALPHA reference In-Reply-To: <199701070850.TAA18913@nemeton.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Giles Lean wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 23:23:07 -0800 "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > Soren is working on it, for status you'd have to ask him. I know that > > his request for help received a rather underwhelming response, so I > > guess IDE CDROM support isn't all that important to people after > > all. :-( > > Perhaps the driver is therefore working well enough to be considered > beta? > > Some of the willing helpers (me :-) have IDE CD ROMs that have worked > since the very first atapi.flp, which would *normally* be a good > thing. > > Finally, as ever, many of the people with spare machines for running > unstable -current code avoid IDE like the plague. I bought my only > IDE CD ROM drive under duress ... What's Soren's email address? How about we add something to the release documentation about Soren's plot? We'd have to be careful to keep everyone who's having basic ATAPI CDROM trouble from flooding him, but... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major