From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 13 15: 3: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailext12.compaq.com (mailext12.compaq.com [207.18.199.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 305BC1539B; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:02:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext12.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id AD4B757838; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint01.compaq.com [207.18.199.34]) by mailext12.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F8854602; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:12 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 9E88E825C3; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:05 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [155.186.83.42]) by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F96E78B42; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:05 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA01066; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:03:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:03:39 -0600 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: Greg Childers , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991211130339.N760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <4.2.0.58.19991210180808.00945190@pop.uky.edu> <199912110732.XAA01032@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912110732.XAA01032@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:32:27PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 23:32:27 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > [missing attribution to Greg Childers ] >> Except that ATA currently does not work on my system. So I assume I'm not >> the only one. > > Actually, to quote from your original message: > >> According to technical product summary, the primary IDE interface, on >> which both my drives reside, is a PCTech RZ1000 on the PCI local bus. > > Nobody in their right mind uses the RZ1000 chipset for IDE. It's one of > the classic "broken" parts (along with several of the CMD64x family) that > you just don't use. > > You're probably not the only one out there with one of these controllers, > but there aren't anywhere near that many of them still circulating after > the massive problems that were encountered with that part _many_ years > ago. OK, and I think I can agree that we don't need to carry support for this chip over into ata. But what does Greg do? He has this hardware. He can do one of four things: 1. Throw it away and get something better. 2. Carry on running 3.X forever. 3. Get pissed off with FreeBSD and go elsewhere. 4. Use the wd driver which has been left in 4.x for exactly this kind of problem. Why make life difficult for him? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message