From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 2:15:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BFB314DDC for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 02:15:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA11320; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:14:58 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36DFAE57.60DFD4D1@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 19:13:43 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kelly Yancey , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? References: <000001be6663$b897bca0$1468f0c6@tech.freedomnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kelly Yancey wrote: > > have to support ATA devices too. He also suggested a more universal device > name like drv0, drv1, drv2, etc rather than deliniating between whether the > drive is ATA or SCSI...I also think that is a good idea as I don't see any > good reason an application should care whether the drive is ATA or SCSI, as > long as the functionality is provided does it matter how? The boot code might be distressed... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message