Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:38:06 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gibbs@pluto.plutotech.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TESTERS WANTED for new ATAPI CD/CDR/CDRW driver. Message-ID: <199808171638.KAA03179@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199808170639.IAA18998@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Aug 17, 98 08:39:41 am"
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Søren Schmidt wrote... > In reply to Justin T. Gibbs who wrote: > > >So when do we get CAM, when do we get documentation for it ?? > > > > If you want access to the development repository, I can give it to > > you right now. If you're talking about getting the code into the > > tree, we're pretty much down to the aha1542, DPT, and worm driver. > > My guess is another month. > > Dont waste your time on the worm driver, unless you plan to > upgrade it significantly. It does only support a couble of > old drives that are not made anymore. My plan is to port the current WORM driver, and leave it at that. It'll probably get done in the next week or two. I'm not planning on upgrading it any, since the SCSI specs all seem to be pointing towards a single integrated CD driver that handles reading and writing. Besides, all the new CD-R's and CD-RW's probe as CDROM devices. > The ATAPI burners are easier, they are all (well most) MMC3 > compatible, so you can use the same driver for them all. > (You could tweak my driver into a SCSI subsystem I guess) I was thinking about putting write support in the CAM cd driver to support CD-R, CD-RW, and eventually DVD drives. Until I get to it, though, cdrecord supports most everything on the market. Are you handling devices that can write via a separate peripheral driver, or do you have an integrated ATAPI CD/CD-R/CD-RW driver? It may well be possible to share some code for ATAPI and SCSI CD-R/CD-RW drives. > And yes you need support for at least the 1542 & clones before > we can put CAM into the kernel for good. A 1542 driver is in the works. Warner already has some code written. (I think it just probes at this point.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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