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Date:      Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:30:50 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TESTERS WANTED for new ATAPI CD/CDR/CDRW driver. 
Message-ID:  <199808151830.LAA05540@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:33:09 +0000 
 Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:

 > You've changed your mind *again*?
 > 
 > For what it's worth, I don't see much value in treating ATA disks as 
 > though they were SCSI disks; the overhead in translation is probably 
 > too high.  On the other hand, I'm less sure about things that use the 
 > ATAPI packet protocol.

Considering that even SCSI command passthrough works on many ATAPI
disks and CD-ROMS, it really is the right thing to do, and we have
had a LOT of success doing it this way in NetBSD.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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