From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 13 08:26:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA27066 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.pa-consulting.com (ns.pa-consulting.com [193.118.224.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27059 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM by ns.pa-consulting.com (8.6.4) id QAA01508; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:36:38 +0100 Received: by SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM with Microsoft Mail id <3239F0B3@SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM>; Fri, 13 Sep 96 16:39:31 PDT From: Duncan Barclay To: freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: ATAPI patch Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 16:17:00 PDT Message-ID: <3239F0B3@SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM> Encoding: 41 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 sos@FreeBSD.org wrote: > In reply to Alexey Pialkin who wrote: > > > > > > I think what he was wondering was whether you'd managed to make the > > > GoldStar work with any *less* delays, e.g. is each and every one of them > > > known to be necessary? > > > > Ugh. Got a point. > > Yeah - i think it is possible to stay DELAYs only in atapi_probe() - all others > > are not so neccesary. > > > > P.S. sorry for such unended patch - but as i said before it's just a hack to get work CDROM. I hope someone sometime will able to write complet ATAPI driver and we will remeber this prolems just as a nightmare that have passed :) > > As I have allready stated, I'm on to it, but given the gigantic > (!NOT) response I have gotten so far, NOONE really seems to care > about it, > > SO GUYS IF YOU WANT A FUNCTIONAL ATA/ATAPI DRIVER READ MY POSTING !!! > > I will spend what I have of time on it, but I don't have a budget > that allows me to go out and buy zillions of different devices.... I have a Sony CD76 which I will happily test on. It does seem to work fine in 2.1, even as the master on the second ide channel. It does not consistently report the same information when probed but this doesn't seem to matter. Duncan