From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 13:56:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7369215118; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 13:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01406; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 13:57:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912092157.NAA01406@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Alexander Leidinger Cc: sobomax@altavista.net, sos@freebsd.dk, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 15:45:09 +0100." <199912091445.PAA42318@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 13:57:54 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On 9 Dec, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > = > > Excuse me for possible off-topic, but I have what is seems for me fre= sh idea > > about this question. Why do not remove from wd driver support for chi= psets > > already implemented/tested in ata driver? Thus both clans would satis= fied > > i.e. users with unsupported by ata chips still will have a chance, wh= ile all > > other will be encouraged to use and test better (IMHO) ata... Eventua= lly at > = > There also exist cases where the chipset is supported but a particular > functionality isn=B4t supported yet (in my case it=B4s the possibility = to > access MS-DOS formated ZIP-disks, harddisk access works well, and I=B4m= > 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