From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 22 00:10:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA06986 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:10:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA06980 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:10:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA04785; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:09:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd004783; Mon Dec 22 00:09:32 1997 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:06:43 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Mike Smith cc: Satoh Junichi , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI LS-120 driver for 3.0-971208-SNAP In-Reply-To: <199712220422.OAA00540@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 Mike.. Or add support for my slice code, which is less work.. On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > I wrote the ATAPI LS-120(SuperDisk) driver for 3.0-971208-SNAP. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Please test it and report to me who have a LS-120 drive. > > I have been looking at this, in what passes for free time. I haven't > mailed you back simply because I haven't had any real success yet. > Much of this has been due to attempting to work with an ATAPI Zip which > has been performing oddly. > > One significant defect in your driver is that you do not support > slices. This makes it impossible to use the driver for things like Zip > disks which come partitioned like harddisks. > > Could you perhaps look into adding slice support? > > Thanks, > mike > > >