From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 17:26:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 17:25:51 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:23301 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 17:25:43 -0400 Subject: Re: Creative 4-speed CDROM driver To: james@spunkysoftware.com Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 22:22:58 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <016601c0e7f7$0c7c8780$c1a5fea9@spunky> from "james@spunkysoftware.com" at May 29, 2001 05:22:55 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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