RE: [MiNT] MiNT and MetaDOS

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@medicaldataservice.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Jo Even Skarstein
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:38 AM
> To: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNT and MetaDOS
>

> > The reason why I don't want to move the audio support from the
> BOS driver
> > into the XFS is simple: it would prevent you to use somebody else's BOS
> > driver -- for instance one that was written to use a CD-ROM on
> the parallel
> > or ROM port.
>
> What's the advantage of using HD-Driver for data-support
> when you have to load and use MetaXBS and a BOS-driver for
> the same device anyway? Are there any performance-advantages?

That allows to keep the SCSI lowlevel stuff out of the BOS driver. Again
this enables you to use the .BOS driver on any system with a working SCSIDRV
interface. I imagine that the Milan users wouldn't be too happy if they
couldn't use SPIN to access their CDs :-)