Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:50:57 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | cdrom & ide-cd maintainence |
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Hi Andre,
I have just returned from a 3 week business trip, so if anyone was trying to get their cdrom problems fixed, I am sorry for my lack of responsiveness.
I am increasingly finding that with the demands of both work and my family, I am not able to maintain the cdrom subsystem as well as the job requires. I currently maintain ide-cd.c, and the uniform cdrom driver (cdrom.c). Unoffically, I have been trying to maintain sbpcd, cdu31a, mcd, and mcdx. In general, the whole thing is in pretty good shape, except for a few bugs here and there. The problem is that I simply do not have the time (and to be fully honest, the interest) to maintain all this stuff anymore. I am porting nethack to Gnome in my (now minimal) spare time, which is currently much more satisfying (http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/erik/gnomehack/gnomehack.html for the interested).
The cdrom subsystem is now up for grabs. Those interested in taking over maintainence of either ide-cd or cdrom.c, please contact me so I can arrange a smooth transition. For those wishing to take over maintaining the older proprietary cdrom drivers, i.e. sbpcd, cdu31a, mcd/mcdx, please contact me as well. I have a cdrom drive for each of these I have used for testing. I would be happy to mail my drive to you, for your commitment to maintain one of these drivers. The other proprietary cdrom drivers, are rarely (if ever) used these days, and do not need maintainence. Thanks for your assistance,
-Erik
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