Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:50:33 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver.. Message-ID: <19990303215033.47794@breizh.teaser.fr> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C199903012121=2EWAA82163=40freebsd=2Edk=3E=3B_from_S=F8?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?ren_Schmidt_on_Mon=2C_Mar_01=2C_1999_at_10=3A21=3A05PM_%2B0?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?100?= References: <199903012121.WAA82163@freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:21:05PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > >Finally!! > >The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is >materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. > >So what does this bring us: > >A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome >most of the deficiencies with the current drivers. > >It supports PCI as well as ISA devices without all the hackery >in ide_pci.c to make PCI devices look like ISA counterparts. What would you think of parallel port devices? Would it be easy to make the new ATAPI stuff work with ppbus? I especially think about the HP7200 CD-RW which has certainly hard real-time constraints to burn a CD. > >It doesn't have the excessive wait problem on probe, in fact you >shouldn't notice any delay when your devices are getting probed. > >Probing and attaching of devices are postponed until interrupts >are enabled (well almost, not finished yet for disks), making >things alot cleaner. Really good work. I'll give it a try this week-end. -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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