Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:49:55 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.org Cc: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961122123625.23632B-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199611211701.SAA01512@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Soren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Paul Richards who wrote: > >=20 > >=20 > > Soren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> writes: > >=20 > > > I have a very good example, I stated some month back that I'd > > > take reponsibility of the atapi/ide driver and do a rewrite,=20 > > > because there was ALOT of talk about how miserable our current > > > implementation was. I also stated that in order to do that I=20 > > > needed some samples of atapi/ide equipment as I dont have the > > > funding for doing that (and given I had I'd buy SCSI :) ) > > > but I didn't get ONE single reponse of that kind, no sir, but > > > I got alot of "let me test it, gimme, gimme, gimme". >=20 > Catch-22... >=20 > > I'd be encouraged by the fact that a lot of people were willing to > > volunteer their time to test it. >=20 > Sure, but it doesn't work that way unfortunately... Okay, I'll send you a couple IDE CDROM drives -- I emailed you during your original offer about the brands I have, but you didn't indicate which models you were interested in. I have a Creative Labs 4X, a PIONEER 4X, and a Funai 4X that I'm willing to part with. One thing though, if I remember correctly you're in Europe S'ren, correct? Where exactly, cause it might be more expensive to send the drives than to just send you some cash to buy new units.. how much do 4X ATAPI CDROMs cost where you are? I'm only a 21 year old univeristy student with a very low budget, but nothing irrates me more than having to recomend Linux to friends instead of FreeBSD because they have IDE CDROMs.... hence, I'll empty my pocket to help out. I also think it would really SUCK to release 2.2 without even slightly improved ATAPI support; Reality check: _ALL_ PC's sold these days ship with ATAPI CDROM drives..... Also, I'll be coming over to France for Christmas (my girlfriend is French) - if you're close by I can hand deliver the drives to you, it would probably by cheaper than sending them through Canada Post. cya, -mark >=20 > -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D- > S=F8ren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Cor= e Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end > .. >=20 --------------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo=09=09 mark@quickweb.com | | RingZero Comp. =09 vinyl.quickweb.com/mark | --------------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." =09=09- L. Peter Deutsch
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