From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 6 14:50:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-6.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A7514E0F for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA01261; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:49:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 14:49:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Takeshi OHASHI , dmiller@search.sparks.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD-ram In-Reply-To: <199907061724.LAA85126@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > IMO, DVD drives are probably best handled through the CD driver, and > Optical drives are probably best handled through the DA driver. The > CD driver doesn't currently handle writes, but it's a one-line fix to > change that. From what I can tell, some of the DVD-RAM drives are actually treated as disks (would use the da driver). For example, check out http://mpeg.openprojects.net/panasonic.html to see the Linux "driver" for the Panasonic LF-D100. The comments outnumber the code. > I'd like to hear what your rationale for a separate driver is, though. - alex I thought felt your touch In my car, on my clutch But I guess it's just someone who felt a lot like I remember you. - Translator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message