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From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
To: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>
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Subject: Re: breakage with two ed network devices - PATCH included
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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 ]



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