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 NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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