From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 28 22:35:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA10018 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 22:35:37 -0700 Received: from ns.dknet.dk (root@ns.dknet.dk [193.88.44.42]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA10012 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 22:35:34 -0700 Received: from login.dknet.dk by ns.dknet.dk with SMTP id AA07335 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Thu, 29 Jun 1995 07:35:29 +0200 Received: by login.dknet.dk (4.1/SMI-4.1DKnet00) id AA00190; Thu, 29 Jun 95 07:30:39 +0200 Message-Id: <9506290530.AA00190@login.dknet.dk> Subject: Re: your mail To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 95 7:30:39 MET DST Cc: vak@gw.cronyx.msk.su, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506282043.NAA10268@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>; from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 28, 95 1:43 pm From: sos@freebsd.org Reply-To: sos@freebsd.org X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm now working on the driver for ATAPI IDE CD-ROMs, > > and I need a major driver numbers for it. > > > > Who should I ask for? Jordan? Rod? > > Or David or anyone else who could commit to the kernel sources.... > Probably best beat is David, as it should probably be pulled to the > 2.1 branch for simpler drop in of your driver for folks who will install > 2.1 and want to add this support. > > > > P.S. For those who are interested: the driver is already > > functioning, at least I can mount disks and read data. > > After adding all needed ioctls and testing the proper > > handling of disc change, I will commit it. > > Sounds good!!! What I'd like to know a little more about is how it coexists with "normal" disks on the same controller ?? This is VERY important as most IDE PC's come with the disk as master and the CDROM as slave on the SAME controller. This ultimately mandates that the driver should be able to handle both disks and CDROM's, or we will once again have two drivers talking to the same hardware (that does sound familliar though :-( ), which won't work very well, if at all. I'm not sure how our E-IDE/ATAPI support is going on what I started some month back, I think dyson got the code from phk who got it from me, so this might be the quantum leap we need to get this sorted out... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@login.dknet.dk) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time