IDE CDROMs & Plan 9

IDE CDROMs & Plan 9

[Jon]

Hello all.

First off, I'd like to give kudos to the Plan 9 Guys.  I've had a lot of fun
playing with the free PC distribution.  I just got the full distribution and
I'm excited to get it going, which leads me to my question.

I have an IDE CDROM drive on my PC, and quite simply I was wondering if there
is any way that I can mount it under Plan 9.  I tried various incantations of
bind on '#H1' (it is my second IDE (slave) drive), to no avail.  I suspect one
of two things:  (I suppose these are obvious...)

  1.  I have the wrong incantation, or
  2.  IDE CDROM drives will not work with Plan 9 currently.

I suspect #2 is the right answer.  Thanks for any suggestions.  I may just
borrow a SCSI CDROM and use that, but I'd like to be able to use my CDROM
drive in the long term.  (I have a PC in transition from IDE to SCSI, so I
can deal with both...)

Jon

IDE CDROMs & Plan 9

[beto]

In <9508242129.AA13544@computer>
	Jon Dugan <jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> First off, I'd like to give kudos to the Plan 9 Guys.  I've had a lot of fun
> playing with the free PC distribution.  I just got the full distribution and
> I'm excited to get it going, which leads me to my question.
> 
> I have an IDE CDROM drive on my PC, and quite simply I was wondering if there
> is any way that I can mount it under Plan 9.  I tried various incantations of
> bind on '#H1' (it is my second IDE (slave) drive), to no avail.  I suspect one
> of two things:  (I suppose these are obvious...)
> 
>   1.  I have the wrong incantation, or
>   2.  IDE CDROM drives will not work with Plan 9 currently.
> 
> 
Hi 

I did a driver for ATAPI CDROMs, in particulary I'm using a creative Quad-speed
CD, which is ATAPI compatible. It serves /dec/atapi/cd for data CDs, and
we have a program vcd which get audio out of the CD :-).

If you are interesting mail me. It contains some code from 
devata.c so I'm not sure how to send it to you. 

IDE CDROMs & Plan 9

[jmk]

There's no problem posting the source; from what dmr said last week
it's not a problem until there's enough out there that someone could
re-engineer the whole system...

I have a Toshiba ATAPI drive I've been meaning to write the driver for.

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In <9508242129.AA13544@computer>
	Jon Dugan <jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> First off, I'd like to give kudos to the Plan 9 Guys.  I've had a lot of fun
> playing with the free PC distribution.  I just got the full distribution and
> I'm excited to get it going, which leads me to my question.
> 
> I have an IDE CDROM drive on my PC, and quite simply I was wondering if there
> is any way that I can mount it under Plan 9.  I tried various incantations of
> bind on '#H1' (it is my second IDE (slave) drive), to no avail.  I suspect one
> of two things:  (I suppose these are obvious...)
> 
>   1.  I have the wrong incantation, or
>   2.  IDE CDROM drives will not work with Plan 9 currently.
> 
> 
Hi 

I did a driver for ATAPI CDROMs, in particulary I'm using a creative Quad-speed
CD, which is ATAPI compatible. It serves /dec/atapi/cd for data CDs, and
we have a program vcd which get audio out of the CD :-).

If you are interesting mail me. It contains some code from 
devata.c so I'm not sure how to send it to you.