From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 26 23:42:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA13898 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA13893 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.7.3) id IAA19765; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:42:47 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199708270642.IAA19765@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: creating support for an IDE tape drive In-Reply-To: <199708261147.HAA19102@apollo.worx.net> from Julie Meyer & Carl Todd at "Aug 26, 97 07:48:33 am" To: chtodd@seacoast.com (Julie Meyer & Carl Todd) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:42:47 +0200 (MEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Julie Meyer & Carl Todd who wrote: > Hi folks, > From what I gather, FreeBSD doesn't yet support IDE (Atapi) tape > drives (I have a Seagate tapestore 8000). I'd like to know if > there's a way for me to hack a bit and create this support. I'd like > some help figuring out which direction to go with this and what I > might have to do to create support for this device. I assume that > the problem lies in the kernel but imagine I may have to create a new > device driver as well. Look at the /sys/i386/isa/atapi.c and related files, there is hooks for this in there allready, just the actual driver is missing... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..