From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 13:26:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from reliam.teaser.fr (reliam.teaser.fr [194.51.80.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F74714FB4 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:26:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsouch@teaser.fr) Received: from teaser.fr (ppp1087-ft.teaser.fr [194.206.156.40]) by reliam.teaser.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id WAA04609; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:25:41 +0100 (MET) Received: (from nsouch@localhost) by teaser.fr (8.9.2/8.9.1) id VAA01105; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:50:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nsouch) Message-ID: <19990303215033.47794@breizh.teaser.fr> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:50:33 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver.. References: <199903012121.WAA82163@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e 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_+0?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?100?= X-Operating-System: FreeBSD breizh 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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