Thus spake Manuel Bouyer
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:39:28PM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > SCSI too?  I use SCSI drives all the time.  The supported hardware
> 
> SCSI tapes are supported, but the driver has to be split between common
> vs scsi-specific parts.
> 
> > page doesn't mention them but they always work.  That's why I assumed
> > that the ATAPI one would work too.
> 
> Unfortunably there's minor differences between scsi and atapi that requires
> some changes to the scsi-only driver.
> 
> > Hmm.  Looked at some of that code and I don't think I know enough about
> > ATAPI or tape drives to do this.  Is anyone started on this?  Can I throw
> > a little money at someone to get it moved up their list?
> 
> Or better: a tape drive :) (with one or two cartridges :)

OK, I finally got a go ahead from the client.  Who wants a free 10/20 GB
IDE tape drive in return for putting the ATAPI driver into the NetBSD
distribution?

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