Re: opening up work on the BeOS client

robert nospam at moon.eorbit.net (marc nospam at freeamp.org)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:47:03 -0700

> BeOS masquerades everything via the CAM driver, including ATAPI. I
> posted some mail on a followup to the topic of some confusing lba's I'm
> getting from the system, but the mail system bounced it with:

Such a unification sounds like a good idea to me.

Any links to CAM you recommend?

I would esp. like to find out what systems support it and if it covers
non SCSI devices too. Right now I know of BeOS, FreeBSD and old faithful
OS/2.

SCSI is interesting for some other reason too. It offers access to
the raw bit stream and I am eager to get some CD in my hands that
features CD Text information in its sub channels.

For a wide range cdi lib I have to think of some strategy to
identify the abilities of the system and then choosing some
aproporate driver access, be it native, CAM or raw SCSI.. depending
what yields most information.

> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
><cdindex nospam at cdindex.org

I write a mail to Robert.
Looks like the mailing list is accessible only under the older name

cdindex nospam at freeamp.org

currently.

> Oh, great. I've stopped reading the comments on /. - total waste of
> time.

Sound/Noise is quite low. But still better than watching TV.

Funny is the technical devolution involved, what a waste of
resources compared to net news to serve those large amounts of
HTML..

Bye,
Marc