From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 23 14:16:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F4414E9C for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07484; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:16:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:16:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Doug , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote: > > > First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA > > drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current > > terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new > > workstation that has IDE disks, so I thought I'd give it a go. > > For me, it's very reliable. It even supports Ultra DMA 2 mode! And of course, > I'm happy with the atapi-fd driver :) See: Great news, thanks. > A device name isn't necessarily the same as a device node, you know. Actually I do know that, but I've never come across a situation in freebsd where I would call something one thing in my kernel config file and something else in /dev. If you are saying that I ought to include atapicd in my kernel config and use the acdN device node, that's all I need to know, but it does bring up the question of why the two things are different. It seems like unecessary obfuscation to me. Thanks for your response, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message