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Date:      Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:42:12 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scd and mcd
Message-ID:  <1E3F5B85-5A1A-4118-A9D8-932F46619C79@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DB3142A.4000807@charter.net>
References:  <4DB3142A.4000807@charter.net>

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On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Andrew Lankford wrote:
> While we're talking about recent MFC's for SATA hardware (works for =
me, but I still need the old ata drivers for my cdrom), is anyone out =
there really still using the mcd (fbsd 1.0 vintage) and scd (2.0.5) =
drivers?

mcd and scd are ISA-only devices.  ISA expansion bus only.  ISA slots =
disappeared off Mobos about 4 years ago entirely.  PATA/IDE connectors =
have been built into mobos for the past 15ish years.  They were =
important for the 386 (now not supported) and 486 machines.  Since the =
486 machines in question maxed out at 32MB, and 8.x has trouble running =
in 32MB on x86, I'm guessing there aren't too many 486 SX/DX machines =
running 8.x.

Therefore, I'd bet money that neither mcd nor scd have attached on any =
machine running 8.x :)

Warner




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