Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 13:57:54 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: sobomax@altavista.net, sos@freebsd.dk, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912092157.NAA01406@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 15:45:09 %2B0100." <199912091445.PAA42318@Magelan.Leidinger.net>
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> On 9 Dec, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Excuse me for possible off-topic, but I have what is seems for me fresh idea > > about this question. Why do not remove from wd driver support for chipsets > > already implemented/tested in ata driver? Thus both clans would satisfied > > i.e. users with unsupported by ata chips still will have a chance, while all > > other will be encouraged to use and test better (IMHO) ata... Eventually at > > There also exist cases where the chipset is supported but a particular > functionality isnīt supported yet (in my case itīs the possibility to > access MS-DOS formated ZIP-disks, harddisk access works well, and Iīm > not the only one with this problem (not counting the people which have > not tried to use the ata driver but need to access MS-DOS-ZIPs too)). I'm completely at a loss as to how the ata driver could be responsible for your inability to read these disks. I don't have a copy of your original problem report to hand, but since I have all the hardware here I'd appreciate it if you could be a little more explicit about your problem. The ata driver just moves bytes; it doesn't give a damn what they are. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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