From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 19 07:08:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21170 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 07:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21097 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 07:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02408; Tue, 19 May 1998 16:07:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199805191407.QAA02408@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB In-Reply-To: from Hans Huebner at "May 19, 98 02:40:52 pm" To: hans@artcom.de (Hans Huebner) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:07:52 +0200 (CEST) Cc: julian@ivision.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply to Hans Huebner who wrote: > > >What am I going to need to do in order to get to use the drive? I > >really would rather use it on a -STABLE system even if I then apply > >a patch to that (potentially rendering it less stable) > > I'm beginning to get sick of this. I did port the the LBA code from > -current to -stable, it works for me since weeks, and it works for > several other people. I see no reason to not put that into -stable, > and I'd really like to see that. 2.2.6-RELEASE is what people new > to FreeBSD are installing, and it should support current hardware, if > feasible. Supporting large IDE drives is feasible, so why not commit > it? Erhm, this is not in the 2.2-stable charter folks, the patches that should go into 2.2-stable should only be bugfixes etc, the next thing is that somebody wants the SMP code into 2.2-stable... There has to be a line drawn somewhere.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message