Archive for August, 2008

ATA bug fixes

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Last week I have updated the ATA driver code in GRUB 2. Error handling was broken and delays were long until Colins TSC patch was applied. The current code is now quite resilient to errors. In the meanwhile I removed the ATAPI code. Instead, I have added a SCSI module. The SCSI modules allows other modules to register a SCSI command interface. The SCSI modules exports a disk device that is communicated with using SCSI commands over this SCSI command interface. The ATA driver was changes to uses scsi.mod.

I am working on USB support for Google Summer of Code. One of my goals is implementing USB Mass Storage Device support (USBMSD). USBMSD also uses SCSI commands. Thus this module will be shares between at least USBMSD and ATAPI. Hopefully someone will add SCSI drivers some day.

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