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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

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