From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 20:01:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974B416A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.mfn.org (mx1.mfn.org [204.238.179.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3CF4401A for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from measl@mfn.org) Received: from [204.238.179.37] ([204.238.179.37]) by mx1.mfn.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h8O314wt098340; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:01:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from measl@mfn.org) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:01:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "J.A. Terranson" To: Dan Nelson In-Reply-To: <20030924014058.GA13727@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:01:09 -0000 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Sep 23), J.A. Terranson said: > > Just means that I am stuck at 4.8R from here on in. So are a lot of > > other people... > > I think if a lot of other people were still using the wd driver we'd > have heard about it. I base my assumption on the fact that I work at a company that has *hundreds* of FBSD boxen, all of which arew on WD for the reasons I have gone into. I figure if we'vew done this, it is reasonable to assume others have too. And after looking through the archives first, there was a lot of anecdotal evidence supporting this theory. > GENERIC only has ata/ad, so I'd expect to see a > lot more "sysinstall can't write to my disk" questions. Oddly enough, I can say with authority that these issues don't show up until the disk has been in use, and starts to hit the ~40-60% usage mark. Prior to that, it's fine. > I seem to > remember having problems with the da driver on my laptop back in 2000, > but that was a loong time ago, and I have quite a few other machines > running kernels from that era that have no problems at all. > > If you actually have a bunch of machines that ata won't work on, maybe > you could ship one to Soeren and let him take a look at it? Gladly, if it will be shipped back when done. In fact, I'll ship two. The "standard build" here, which is a PPRo and the "current" which is an Asus SiS based board with a PIII-866. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org "Every living thing dies alone." Donnie Darko