Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:17:22 +0100 From: Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@mail.virtual-estates.net> 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: <20010314171722.A473@nebula.cybercable.fr> In-Reply-To: <200103141544.KAA00670@mail.virtual-estates.net>; from mi@mail.virtual-estates.net on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:44:47AM -0500 References: <200103141519.QAA46468@freebsd.dk> <200103141544.KAA00670@mail.virtual-estates.net>
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Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Yes, atacontrol is on its way for doing numerous things to > > ATA/ATAPI devices, no promises as to when, but soon now.. > > 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? That doesn't look very nice. It would be a lot nicer IMO to have a generic 'buscontrol' utility independant from the bus and have each bus implement its own scan method. AFAIK, it shouldn't be hard to do with newbus, and it could be also used for pcmcia for example. Just my $0.02, Maxime -- Don't be fooled by cheap finnish imitations ; BSD is the One True Code Key fingerprint = F9B6 1D5A 4963 331C 88FC CA6A AB50 1EF2 8CBE 99D6 Public Key : http://www.epita.fr/~henrio_m/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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