Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:09:04 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@mail.virtual-estates.net> Cc: Brad Huntting <huntting@hunkular.glarp.com>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, "[S_ren] Schmidt" <sos@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c ata-disk.h atapi-all.c atapi-all.h atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h atapi-fd Message-ID: <200103141709.f2EH94914875@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:54:46 EST." <200103141654.LAA01585@mail.virtual-estates.net> References: <200103141654.LAA01585@mail.virtual-estates.net>
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In message <200103141654.LAA01585@mail.virtual-estates.net> Mikhail Teterin writes: : > > Perhaps, it'd be better to have the SCSI emulation layer? Then, not : > > only will the existing camcontrol be able to do this job, but : > > various SCSI-only utilities (like CD/DVD burning software) will be : > > able to work with IDE devices? Or is such layer A WHOLE LOT more : > > complex to implement? : > : > I believe this is the method used by OpenBSD. : : And Linux. The CAM folks tried to convince Soren of this, but he didn't seem too interested in it a few years ago. It has been talked to death in the past and unless there's someone willing to do the work, and they can convince Soren it is a good idea and likely come up with code to do it, I doubt it will happen. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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