From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 20 23:50:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B318414F6B for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA33104; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:47:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199904210647.IAA33104@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps In-Reply-To: <19990420210902.A6680@netmonger.net> from Christopher Masto at "Apr 20, 1999 9: 9: 2 pm" To: chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:47:42 +0200 (CEST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Christopher Masto wrote: > My machine panicked today for the first time since switching to the > new ATA drivers, and I noticed that I no longer have crash dumps. > Is this something that is expected to be put back in soon? > > I know Søren's a busy guy, and I'm glad we have the results of his > work. I just hope the old drivers don't get killed off until the > replacement has the same functionality. > > Then again, wddump() is only 100 lines of code, so I should probably > try to fix it myself before whining. I know :), it has just not been done yet. It will be done eventually but I have other areas in the driver I want finish first. Also the old wd driver will probably not be killed off entirely, as its the only one we have that support old ST506/ESDI drives. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message