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From: Milton.Ngan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (milton)
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Subject: IDE CDROM for NetBSD (was Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too))
Date: 04 Jan 1996 10:01:17 GMT
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> It finally fell upon Serge Vakulenko, one of our farthest-flung
> developers in Russia, to stand up and say "OK! I'll do it!" after
> earlier attempts sort of fizzled, and he's been working away at it
> ever since. Serge's geographic location and work overload have made
> this slower going than some would like, to be sure, but since those
> are the only resources we have, that's the way it goes! If someone
> out there wants to see it go faster they have only to jump in and
> help out!
I have done just that. I have taken Serge's code and ported it
across of NetBSD. It is still pretty buggy. I am not sure I will
have much more time to work on it since I did most of the porting
over the Christmas/New Year break. Perhaps someone is willing to
take this and run with it a little further. This is my first attempt
at delving into device driver stuff.
But the driver can play audio, and mount ISO9660 disks. What more do
you need? :) I think there is a timing problem somewhere, but I
don't really know exactly how to fix it. Serge's code had a problem
with the 2k transfers, and I have written some code to try and fix
that, but it is still woefully incomplete.
M.
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