From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 15 11:48:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24140 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24132; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA05540; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808151830.LAA05540@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Mike Smith Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TESTERS WANTED for new ATAPI CD/CDR/CDRW driver. Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:30:50 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:33:09 +0000 Mike Smith wrote: > You've changed your mind *again*? > > For what it's worth, I don't see much value in treating ATA disks as > though they were SCSI disks; the overhead in translation is probably > too high. On the other hand, I'm less sure about things that use the > ATAPI packet protocol. Considering that even SCSI command passthrough works on many ATAPI disks and CD-ROMS, it really is the right thing to do, and we have had a LOT of success doing it this way in NetBSD. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message