It seems Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:49:18 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > This is definitly something that is needed.. > > The question is whether the CAM and ATAPI authors feel it is > > right. We are guided by them (even though we desperatly need this). > > > > Personally even if not perfect.. it's better than nothing and we should > > probably commit something like it. or based on it.. > > (having looked at it I think it seems fine.) > > I think it's a good idea as well.
Hmm, why do we need to add new layers and loss of functionality to the ATAPI devices ? > > So here's my vote for a quick commit. > > No. See below. There are still problems with it. I'll quit the ATA/ATAPI development/maintenance if this goes in quickly. There are alot of issues here that needs solutions. It will need a *serious* maintainer that handles all aspects of it, especially dealing with error reports for one thing, technically it needs to be brought to a state where it works on alot more HW that seems to be the case for now, and the integration into the ATA driver should be dealt with a bit differently. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message