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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:42:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To:        "Vladislav V. Zhuk" <admin@dru.dn.ua>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net>
Subject:   Re: ATA driver not as good in 4.8 as 4.5?
Message-ID:  <20030430223852.S99696@shell.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030428170308.GB92680@dru.dn.ua>
References:  <200304281506.h3SF6jWq008776@dungeon.home> <20030428170308.GB92680@dru.dn.ua>

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Vladislav V. Zhuk wrote:

> New ATA have some troubles with detect hardware: i can't install
> freebsd 4.7 from CD to my old box (P-166). Freebsd 4.4 installed
> without problem.

Yes, found that myself, it doesn't like my rather old ATA controller.  If
this is a firewall, you can always try another BSD distro.  You won't get
all the nifty ata features, but you shouldn't need it on that old of a
box.  My old machine is very happy with OpenBSD right now.

I wish there was a way to get the old wd driver back for clunky old boxes.
For now, why not file a PR?  I did, I also offered remote console access
to the machine, core files, all that stuff, but no response (not even a
"go away kid, you bother me") from the maintainer.

> Many people complained about bugs in new ATA, but this bugs don't
> fixed long time...

Use send-pr and file a bug.  It can't hurt.  Or follow on to one of the
other PRs that describes your issue...

Charles

> PS: sorry for my english
>
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