>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 19 21:37:47 2001
>> If I boot Linux, I cannot even read audio from the drive and cd writing does
>> not work because of the existence of the ide-cdrom driver :-(
>The ide-cd driver has no impact on the ide-scsi driver.
That was not what I sayd. Because of the existence of the ide-cdrom driver
nobody cares about the bugs in the layering
PC-CARD -> IDE -> IDE-SCSI -> SCSI generic ot any other high level driver
>> If somebody will take the FreeBSD sources and make ATAPI an integral part of the
>> FreeBSD/CAM system, then even the FreeBSD guys will be happy.
>The goal is to go much more towards the FreeBSD layer. Bear in mind that two
>of the three main Linux scsi maintainers are FreeBSD people as well.
If you take the FreeBSD/CAM system as is, then people will not use the new
version because they cannot write CD's anymore.
If I get a question from a FreeBSD user, I advise him to change towards
NetBSD because NetBSD does support ATAPI interated into SCSI.
While FreeBSD/Cam SCSI is much better than Linux SCSI, it lacks ATAPI support
which is a really bad thin.
>> To make things work as one would expect, there would be a need to change:
>> - ide-scsi to make it behave more SCSI compliant
>> - SCSI sr.c to make it work correctly with multi session CD's
>These both sound good
... and then you may make this the default configuration.
>> - the ide PCATA low level stuff to make it work with the ide-scsi layer
>> so my PCATA CD-writers from FreeCOM and Sony may be used.
>Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for IDE in general
>Jens Axobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for IDE CD-ROM
>Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for parallel port IDE
PP IDE is not envolved in any of my problems, it just works nice.
Does >Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for IDE in general
includes IDE over PC-CARD and DMA over PC-CARD?
J�rg
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