Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:01:02 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> To: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: breakage with two ed network devices - PATCH included Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010301658060.17779-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <14845.32400.864084.3375@whale.home-net>
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, John Reynolds wrote: > > [ On Monday, October 30, Roman Shterenzon wrote: ] > > Hi, > > > > Was it fixed in the last revisions of sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c ? > > > > Nope! > > I've received absolutely nothing constructive from anybody (except Warner) on > this, so I've said to hell with it and bought myself two Intel EtherExpress > boards. I could not configure my other ISA NICs on any other combination of IRQ > because i've got so much crap in this box already, so rather than having a box > I cannot upgrade because of the damned ATA code, I'm spending some $$$ to get > PCI NICs. > > <sigh> > > I've asked time and time again "should ATA code attach() hardware which has no > devices on it" and nobody seems to answer. It seems horribly broken to me to > probe and attach hardware if no devices are sitting there. Oh well. > > Is it affecting you too? Thanks for your reply, I was looking at cvs and didn't find it committed, but I though that perhaps there was other solution that sneaked in. Not yet, but I've a computer with two ne2000 cards which I wanted to use with FreeBSD, but seems that I'll have to stick with OpenBSD if it doesn't work. Or, merge your patch every time I buildworld (rather bad solution). --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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