Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 10:58:01 -0500 From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should we get ATAPI from NetBSD? Message-ID: <199603071558.KAA12827@spooky.rwwa.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 21:08:30 PST." <Pine.AUX.3.91.960306205931.23474A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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> Well, that's good! I see three main problems with the ATAPI driver as it > stands: I have an architectural complaint: We already have the ``controller/disk/...'' methodology for ide/atapi disks. This adds ``device'' (sorta like the scsi methodology''. I'd rather we pick *one* methodology. As it is now the two metodologies seem to conflict with each other in the case of atapi/cdrom, given the sensitivity of the cdrom code to whether you have ``disk wdN at wdcN drive N'' for the same controller. If I had my druthers I guess I'd reluctantly pic the scsi way, if there were some indirection of other painless way to maintain the same logical configuration given changes in the physical configuration. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
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