Thomas, what I find very interesting is that it still works regardless of the commands that ATAPI don't understand, I know this is abit off topic, but would any hardware expert mind explaining? :)
Will On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2002-07-14, Willie Viljoen écrivait : > > > Just to follow up, I went back to -STABLE after discovering I don't need > > -current to do this (*slight sigh of reliefe*) > > Yep, I do most ATAPI/CAM develoment on -STABLE machines. > > > Thomas, ever consider asking for it to be committed into FreeBSD proper, > > atleast maybe into -current? > > This is being considered, but I am not the one who can make the decision > on this issue. If you'd like to see the code integrated into -CURRENT, > you should let Søren know ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > > The code is really good IMHO. Those ILLEGAL_REQUEST warnings come from > > that ATA driver, and they shouldn't scare anybody, but for the really > > paranoid, I'm sure they could be eliminated by some extra options for the > > ata(4) driver to allow us to silence error output (Soren?) > > Well, the ATA driver just reports whatever error condition comes from > the drive. The real solution may involve modifying the SCSI device > drivers (cd/sa/da) so that they do not send commands that may not > work with specific targets, or filtering requests to translate them > into the restricted command set that ATAPI units support (this is > done in an ad hoc fasion in atapi-cam currently, but there is also > work in progress for a general command filtering framework in -CURRENT). > > Thomas. > > -- Willie Viljoen Highveld Computing Solutions 214 Paul Kruger Avenue Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60, a/h +27 51 522 44 36 +27 82 404 03 27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
