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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:32:09 -0600
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!
Message-ID:  <19991211123208.E760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912102144.WAA27469@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 10:44:36PM %2B0100
References:  <199912102123.OAA21691@mt.sri.com> <199912102144.WAA27469@freebsd.dk>

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On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 22:44:36 +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Nate Williams wrote:
>>> If half as much energy was spent adding the missing bits of functionality
>>> to the new systems as people have been spending complaining it then we'd be
>>> there ages ago.
>>
>> Not true.  It doesn't take a disk expert to complain about a policy, but
>> it takes one to fix bugs/add features to the existing driver. :) :) :)
>
> Yeah, and some of them is spending valueable time going thru all this
> garbage in their mailbox instead of doing something usefull.
>
> Excuse me for not taking part in this, but I _really_ think I can use
> my time for better things...

Sure, this thread has gone on far too long.  Let's agree to the
principle of leaving drivers in the system, disabled, until their
replacements can do everything that they can.  It looks like ata is
nearly there, but what about those Cyrix users?  Who has a Cyrix chip?
Until we find somebody with hardware, inclination and ability, it's
going to be difficult to replace the wd driver.

Greg
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