On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:21:05PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > >Finally!! > >The much roumored replacement for our current IDE/ATA/ATAPI is >materialising in the CVS repositories around the globe. > >So what does this bring us: > >A new reengineered ATA/ATAPI subsystem, that tries to overcome >most of the deficiencies with the current drivers. > >It supports PCI as well as ISA devices without all the hackery >in ide_pci.c to make PCI devices look like ISA counterparts.
What would you think of parallel port devices? Would it be easy to make the new ATAPI stuff work with ppbus? I especially think about the HP7200 CD-RW which has certainly hard real-time constraints to burn a CD. > >It doesn't have the excessive wait problem on probe, in fact you >shouldn't notice any delay when your devices are getting probed. > >Probing and attaching of devices are postponed until interrupts >are enabled (well almost, not finished yet for disks), making >things alot cleaner. Really good work. I'll give it a try this week-end. -- nso...@teaser.fr / nso...@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
