Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 00:57:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, doc@freebsd.org, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Subject: Re: ATAPI ALPHA reference Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970108005617.246B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199701070850.TAA18913@nemeton.com.au>
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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Giles Lean wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 23:23:07 -0800 "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > Soren is working on it, for status you'd have to ask him. I know that > > his request for help received a rather underwhelming response, so I > > guess IDE CDROM support isn't all that important to people after > > all. :-( > > Perhaps the driver is therefore working well enough to be considered > beta? > > Some of the willing helpers (me :-) have IDE CD ROMs that have worked > since the very first atapi.flp, which would *normally* be a good > thing. > > Finally, as ever, many of the people with spare machines for running > unstable -current code avoid IDE like the plague. I bought my only > IDE CD ROM drive under duress ... What's Soren's email address? How about we add something to the release documentation about Soren's plot? We'd have to be careful to keep everyone who's having basic ATAPI CDROM trouble from flooding him, but... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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