From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 23 15:45:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1406C14E29 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:45:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA90006; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:45:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Doug Cc: 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, Doug wrote: > 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. atapi-cd, atapi-fd, atapi-disk are more descriptive (self-explanatory) for the config file. acd, afd, and ad are shorter, in the concise "/dev/node" way. Complain to Soren if you don't like it ;) > > 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 > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message