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From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! 
To: msmith@freebsd.org
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On  9 Dec, Mike Smith wrote:

>> There also exist cases where the chipset is supported but a particular
>> functionality isn´t supported yet (in my case it´s the possibility to
>> access MS-DOS formated ZIP-disks, harddisk access works well, and I´m
>> 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.

Try to mount a MS-DOS formatted ZIP-disk (or to access it with mtools).
With wfd I´m able to access it, with afd I can´t access it.
 - Yes, I´m used the right /dev entries and remade them with the
   newest MAKEDEV, everytime I tested it.
 - Yes, I´m used the right fstab/mtools.conf entries ({,r}{a,w}fd0s4).

If you need more info (dmesg of boot -v with ata and/or wd driver,
{g,b}zipped image of an empty, unaccessible ZIP-disk, ...) just ask.

Bye,
Alexander.

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