From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: james@spunkysoftware.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creative 4-speed CDROM driver
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 22:22:58 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E154UTa-0003YH-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016601c0e7f7$0c7c8780$c1a5fea9@spunky> from "james@spunkysoftware.com" at May 29, 2001 05:22:55 AM
> If anyone on the kernel list has written a driver for a CDROM please send me
> mail about how you went about it, did you approach the manufacturer for the
> documentation on the device, if I made a mistake could I ruin my hardware?
> and stuff like that.
For IDE CD-ROM there is a standard. Its about 600 pages long but the best
model is probably to implement scsi over atapi since Minix has some basic scsi
code. Then you can drive all but very old ide cdrom devices as scsi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-28 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-29 4:22 james
2001-05-28 21:22 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-05-29 7:20 ` james
2001-05-28 22:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-29 7:35 ` james
2001-05-29 10:21 ` Francois Romieu
[not found] ` <015601c0e8de$0e936ba0$c1a5fea9@spunky>
[not found] ` <20010530094004.A14129@se1.cogenit.fr>
2001-05-30 17:21 ` james
2001-05-30 15:12 ` Masoud Sharbiani
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