Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 20:10:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI CDDA Extraction under FreeBSD Message-ID: <199805181810.UAA07737@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199805181946.VAA00325@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at May 18, 98 09:46:26 pm
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> > i first want to see proper timeout handling on the IDE bus > > (and i don't see anyone else going to implement it, so ...) > > I'm looking at it, I need it for the CDR/RW support too, the problem > is that there is no good way to awake a hung ATAPI device, other > that flicking the switch :( no reset command or so, and re-running the init sequence ? But i also suspect you are right, at times i get some inconsistencies that not even the hard reset cures, i have to cycle power. > When I'm done wcd.c will look very different from todays model... i am not sure this is good news :) since you are probably working on -current and it will take some time before these patches hit -stable, right ? > You wont gain much performance in disk accesss speed, but you gain > alot by freeing the CPU during the transfers... oh yes, and also the stability issues seem to be solved from other comments i received... cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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