From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 15:23:28 -0500 From: jim mckie jmk@plan9.att.com Subject: More ATAPI questions Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3917cd8e-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19951222202328.yZiPNyFo7nMKQeCZuVvM57id2E5tTW40dh7_QKemJB8@z> Did you add the T device to your config file before you made the kernel? You're right in that devatapi was originally written by Alberto Nava. I don't recommend its use, it's not very robust, especially in the presence of interrupts from the keyboard. And yes, it shouldn't be T, it should probably be merged into the sbcd driver. ------ forwarded message follows ------ >>From cse.psu.edu!9fans-outgoing-owner Fri Dec 22 13:43:05 EST 1995 Received: from colossus.cse.psu.edu by plan9; Fri Dec 22 13:43:05 EST 1995 Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <78623>; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 13:21:51 -0500 Received: from mail.infinet.com ([198.30.154.1]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <78621>; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 13:21:34 -0500 Received: from DARC by mail.infinet.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0tTC18-000JisC; Fri, 22 Dec 95 13:16 EST Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Luther Huffman, Jr." To: cse.psu.edu!9fans Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 18:19:54 -0500 Subject: More ATAPI questions Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: cse.psu.edu!owner-9fans Precedence: bulk Reply-To: cse.psu.edu!9fans I know that devatapi.c in the latest boddle for 9/pc is based on a driver by Alberto Nava. Didn't the original driver use a code '#T' for ATAPI drives? The Plan 9 manual mentions kprof using '#T'. That would appear to me to cause a potential conflict if it weren't for the fact that, on my system, "ls '#T' ' doesn't show anything at all. I've installed the boddle, added "cdrom0=type=atapi port=0x170 irq=15" to plan9.ini. So where's '#T'? And if it isn't '#T', what is the proper code? Along more trivial lines, is there a name for file names that begin with '#'? The documentation only refers to them as "roots of a file tree implemented by a kernel device driver". This is rather cumbersome, rather like "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince".