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Date:      Sun, 20 Dec 1998 08:38:13 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -current flash ATA pccard
Message-ID:  <199812201538.IAA15406@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981219185201.A26235@netmonger.net>
References:  <19981219185201.A26235@netmonger.net>

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> I aquired one of those compact flash pccard adapters recently, and as
> far as I can tell, this won't won't work on -current because the wd
> driver needs to be updated to make itself available to the pccard
> subsystem.  I was just about to start on this, but I want to make sure
> I'm not wasting my time.  As best as I've been able to tell from
> searching the mailing list archives, these are the questions I have:
> 
>   Does 3.0 already support the use of PCCARD ATA "drives"?  I see
>   a message or two that seems to imply this is the case, but I have
>   been unable to get it to work, and I don't see any support for
>   it in the source code.

No.

>   Is somebody already working on this?

I'm supposed to be (of my own accord), but it ain't gonna happen this
year. :)

> I am not looking for the answer, "use PAO".  I want to make it work
> under standard FreeBSD 3.0, but I would like to know what the current
> status is.

If you get to it before me, send me the patches and I'll test them.
(The ATA patches that is...)


Nate

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