ken>>> I am a beta tester of the new od driver. It almost works fine on some ken>>> beta testers system, but we cannot redistribute without Mr. Akiyama's ken>>> permit. ken>> ken>>Of course. Well, if he doesn't mind, I'd like to take a look at it at some ken>>point.
He is preparing the review version of od-driver. Please wait some days. ken>>> I have a new question. If od driver is needless, why cd and da drivers ken>>> are sepalate yet? Only difference is TOC ioctls, isn't it? ken>>It's true that the read/write interfaces of the two drivers are very ken>>similar, but there are a number of other differences. They probably could ken>>be combined with some difficulty, but then there are booting concerns (if ken>>everything is a DA device, how can you make sure you aren't booting off a ken>>CDROM drive?), major numbers, and device names to think about as well. Thank you for your answer. I think this situation is like as OD devices. Some DVD-RAM/MO/PD drives are recognized as DA and others are CD. For example, A PD media is used as a DA on PD drives. The PD media is used as a CD on DVD-RAM and DVD-ROM drives. It is very confusing. Sometime we want to disable booting from these devices. The reason why we want od driver. -- Takeshi OHASHI oha...@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp oha...@jp.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
