[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