From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 16 15:09:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA00749 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:09:59 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA00737 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:09:54 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA05216; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:08:36 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id PAA01141; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:10:56 -0700 Message-Id: <199509162210.PAA01141@corbin.Root.COM> To: Jake Hamby cc: Didier Derny , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atapi.c and wcd.c missing.... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Sep 95 08:53:32 PDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:10:51 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> the entry 'wdc0' and remove it. We have not yet brought in the ATAPI cdrom >> support. >> >> -DG >> > >But ATAPI support WILL be added to -stable sometime before 2.1.0, right? >I ask because so many people have bought IDE CD-ROM drives (including >myself and one friend who wants to install FreeBSD but wait for the CD-ROM >release of 2.1.0 :-) and the vast majority of drives will probably work with >the current ATAPI drivers. Support for the largest possible range of >CD-ROM drives is also important in order to actually INSTALL FreeBSD when >it's distributed on CD-ROM without copying it to the hard drive, first. >Just wanted to verify that this WOULD be in 2.1.0, even if it does have >some problems, it's far better than nothing. There are serious bugs in the code at the moment that cause it to break support for a significant number of IDE _disks_. I will not be bringing in this code until those bugs are fixed. -DG