Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 23:48:59 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: atapi errors Message-ID: <14743.847180139@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Nov 1996 16:16:51 %2B1030." <199611050546.QAA22535@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> It's been pretty clearly established that the FBSD atapi driver isn't > the hottest. Nobody much here takes ATAPI CDroms seriously, for what > seem to us to be good reasons. If you do, or you can help motivate > someone else, then consider it in your interest to do so. Actually, even those of us who take it very seriously, as Walnut Creek CDROM does, are somewhat handicapped by still not really knowing what the heck to do about it. :-( I'm no kernel hacker, dipping into that area of the system only very occasionally, and yet WC has no one else on tap to deal with this. Soren and others have kindly volunteered to try and do *something* about it, but they're so overloaded already that this doesn't necessarily guarantee any forward progress. We need an ATAPI god to come along and pick this up more than anything else, and any failure to do so really doesn't have a lot to do with hardware elitism at all - these people are simply rare and we just haven't found one yet. This also hasn't been helped by the fact that a local company volunteered to provide hardware then faded away. I'm about to the point where I'm going to ask WC for about $2K to buy all the IDE CDROMS I can find, using the rest as a slush fund to buy some sort of perk that an ATAPI hacker would appreciate. Maybe a Thai bride? :-) Jordan
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