Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:42:04 +0200 (SAST) From: Willie Viljoen <will@highveldcs.com> To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org> Cc: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com>, <jstocker@tzi.de>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI emulation in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020714214054.V185-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> In-Reply-To: <20020714213802.A81207@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
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Thomas, what I find very interesting is that it still works regardless of the commands that ATAPI don't understand, I know this is abit off topic, but would any hardware expert mind explaining? :) Will On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2002-07-14, Willie Viljoen =E9crivait : > > > Just to follow up, I went back to -STABLE after discovering I don't nee= d > > -current to do this (*slight sigh of reliefe*) > > Yep, I do most ATAPI/CAM develoment on -STABLE machines. > > > Thomas, ever consider asking for it to be committed into FreeBSD proper= , > > atleast maybe into -current? > > This is being considered, but I am not the one who can make the decision > on this issue. If you'd like to see the code integrated into -CURRENT, > you should let S=F8ren know (sos@freebsd.org). > > > The code is really good IMHO. Those ILLEGAL_REQUEST warnings come from > > that ATA driver, and they shouldn't scare anybody, but for the really > > paranoid, I'm sure they could be eliminated by some extra options for t= he > > ata(4) driver to allow us to silence error output (Soren?) > > Well, the ATA driver just reports whatever error condition comes from > the drive. The real solution may involve modifying the SCSI device > drivers (cd/sa/da) so that they do not send commands that may not > work with specific targets, or filtering requests to translate them > into the restricted command set that ATAPI units support (this is > done in an ad hoc fasion in atapi-cam currently, but there is also > work in progress for a general command filtering framework in -CURRENT). > > Thomas. > > --=20 Willie Viljoen Highveld Computing Solutions 214 Paul Kruger Avenue Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60, a/h +27 51 522 44 36 +27 82 404 03 27 will@highveldcs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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