> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 9:39 AM Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Everyone, >> ... >> >> One such item I noticed was the ATAPICDD driver. It might be nice to have an >> alternate CD driver that might cover some additional hardware. So, I added >> to that one to the repos. But, I don’t know much about this driver other >> than it is open source. I don’t know if it will cover any hardware not >> currently supported. I don’t know if it is rock solid or buggy. I don’t know >> if we should include it in the release or not. I know very little about it. >> >> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/atapicdd.html >> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/atapicdd >> >> I’m going to try to find some time over the next few days to do some testing >> of that driver. But, I’d appreciate any feedback on it the group has >> regarding it. Does anyone remember anything about it? >> >> ... >> :-)
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 12:10 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > So quick answer, it's my driver, Jack's is way better, it is PIO > only (no DMA) so slow and buggy. No need to include. > > Longer answer, at the time we had no free general CD driver. We > had permission to include the eltorito driver and I forget the exact > brand but also have permission to include a closed source one that > unfortunately worked with older CD drives and not modern ones > (around 2005 era, so really wouldn't work with current drives > probably). So I started reading the specifications and implementing > one. It works for some definition of work, but was never > completed. Jack made his available and so I never got back to it > when I had some time. I had a more advanced version than released > but lost sources a long time ago. I do not have it in public source > control (only private git repository now), though it is/was > somewhere on my fdos.org site. > I want to do a better job of tracking FreeDOS development history, so whenever little historical items like this come up, I try to capture them in the FreeDOS wiki. I hope you don't mind, but I created this wiki entry with your text: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/ATAPICDD Feel free to update this further. (If you don't have a wiki account, or don't remember your wiki password, email me and I'll set you up.) Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
