From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 23 12:13:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20238 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:13:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from citrine.cyberstation.net (hannibal@citrine.cyberstation.net [205.167.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA20223 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hannibal@cyberstation.net) Received: from localhost (hannibal@localhost) by citrine.cyberstation.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA05128; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:13:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:13:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Walters To: Mike Smith cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-RW documentation... In-Reply-To: <199710231539.BAA00881@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > Never mind, it's amazing how you always find things right after you give > > up and ask. :) For anyone wondering, the motherload of specs can be > > found by ftp at fission.dt.wdc.com, including the working draft of the > > ATAPI Removable Rewritable Specification, SFF-8070. Wish their web pages > > would mention the site. :) > > Thanks for finding the number for me; I ran out of patience downloading > them, struggling to print them and giving up 8) It may be SFF-8080 though - I thought 8070 was it, but after reading the intro it sounded more like something for the new floppy drives... 8080 is clearly CD-RW. > Nobody's begun any work, as such. Again, I exhort you to look at > Justin Gibbs' CAM framework; it is the future of mass storage > interfaces in FreeBSD, and we should be looking towards it. Already downloaded it, just havn't had the chance to look at any of it yet. I take it that going the CAM route would be a completely different approach than writing an ATAPI sub-driver? ====================================================================== Dan Walters hannibal@cyberstation.net ======================================================================