From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 20: 6:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4025D15816 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:06:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA07754; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:06:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199912110406.UAA07754@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: <199912102115.OAA25113@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Dec 10, 1999 02:15:33 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:05:59 -0800 (PST) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > We've been telling people for a long time that the wd driver would > remain around even after ata went golden to support the ESDI systems > still in service. That sounds like it is changing now. Real support for ESDI died with bad144... Error free ESDI disks are very rare, even the best in my collection has 1 hard error and 3 soft. > It just feels like it is being rushed too much. My objections would > go away if you said it is going to die in the week between xmas and > new years. remove it from files today, to make sure that only the > really clueful can get to it, but don't do a cvs remove until after > the holidays... Someone needs to dull the dane's axe, it's cutting a bit deep and fast! :-) :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message