Re: [ros-dev] Univesal ATA Driver + Source

[James Tabor]

Hartmut Birr wrote:
>   Alex Ionescu wrote:
>  
>  
> >  Hi Guys,
> >
> > Found this great site:
> >
> > http://alter.org.ua/soft/win/uni_ata/index.php?lang=en&
> >
> > His driver is compatible from NT4-XP and I think it would be useful to
> > us.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex Ionescu
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> >  
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  for using this driver or improving our atapi driver we need to implement
>  some more functions in scsiport. The stoppers are ScsiPortValidateRange
>  and ScsiPortGetDeviceBase at the moment. The atapi or uata driver can't
>  detect if an ide controller is already recognized by the driver itself
>  or another driver. Some time ago I've modified atapi a little bit. Now
>  atapi does handle more than one ide controller.
>  
>  - Hartmut
>  
>  
>   
One more thing! For those who may be interested in hacking atapi!

Do not break ATA removable drive support! If anyone/you are going to make changes
to atapi, anyone/you better have real hardware and a IOMEGA or like ZIP drive!
We have to test all possibilities!

Seriously, B^|
James