From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 25 18:23:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09993 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09988 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:23:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA14109; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 21:22:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199701260222.VAA14109@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds? To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 21:22:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: tom@sdf.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jason Garman" at Jan 25, 97 07:44:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Tom Samplonius writes: > > Considering that a perfectly good, brand new EIDE controller with > > primary and secondary, and dual 16550 UARTs, and printer for $50, why > > bother? > > > A few reasons: > > 1. I'd rather not waste a slot on a card I don't need. I hardly have > enough free as it is. > 2. I'd rather not waste $50 on something that's already on my > motherboard. > > I realize that this is a hardware flaw, but the computer manufacturer is > completely unresponsive to any requests (besides this machine is not > under warranty any more anyhow. If anyone has any suggestions as to how > to deal with the manufacturer, I'd love to hear those too) > I can 'fix' the problem but am overloaded with work this weekend. We haven't encountered this problem very often, and any solution to the problem is a bit of a 'wart.' If you are willing to wait for approx 1-2wks, I might be able to hack the wd driver. (In fact, it might be a good kernel initiation project for YOU :-)). John dyson@freebsd.org