device atapicam not enabled in GENERIC kernel for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

[Duane Whitty]

On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:30, Kris 
Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:26:37PM 
-0400, Duane Whitty wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone has any
> > information/opinion as to why
> > device atapicam is not enabled by
> > default in the GENERIC kernel.
>
> It's not an appropriate default,
> since it modifies the way the ata
> subsystem works in ways the
> maintainer does not wish to support,

Sorry, but do you mean the ata subsystem 
maintainer or the atapicam maintainer?

> and often contains bugs.
>
> Kris

Hi,

Thanks Kris.

Is atapicam part of the base?  I was 
under the impression it implements an 
abstracted SCSI interface over the ata 
device subsystem but maybe I'm not 
adequately understanding what's really 
happening.

Just an observation but it seems as 
though there is a great deal of use 
being made of the atapicam subsystem.  
I noticed for instance that in addition 
to /dev/cd0 that /dev/pass0 
and /dev/da0 also did not show up until 
I rebuilt with atapicam or did I just 
miss them?

Unless I'm wrong doesn't this mean that 
usb drives and those types of devices 
need the atapicam subsystem?

Thanks for your patience and help.

Best regards,

--Duane