From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 20 05:30:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA10724 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 05:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10719 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 05:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11988; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 13:29:55 GMT Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 13:29:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith cc: Andrew Gallatin , "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot kern.flp wedges -- now what? In-Reply-To: <199812182202.OAA02955@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > Also, FreeBSD does not yet support IDE devices > > > > > > You're talking about FreeBSD-alpha, right? FreeBSD-intel does IDE just > > > fine. What's the story with IDE on alpha? > > > > Last I checked, isa devices requiring DMA didn't work yet, and the > > new, pci-only driver wasn't yet done. (at least I though somebody was > > working on one...) I'd be happy to be wrong about that ;-) > > This took a hit when Soren's system and his backup tapes were stolen. > I'm not sure how much momentum we've lost, but I'd say quite a lot. Ouch, that hurts. I was daydreaming about writing a CAM driver for atapi which would support CD and Zip drives. I spent an hour comparing the atapicd and scsi cd drivers and figuring out the differences in the protocol and I'm sure that the translation needed for the (few) different commands would be minimal. Unfortunately fixed disks don't fit into the scsi-like protocol afaik. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message