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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003150113390.62036-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> from Andy Farkas at "Mar 15, 2000 01:15:57 am"
To: andyf@speednet.com.au (Andy Farkas)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:03:15 +0100 (CET)
Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein),
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It seems Andy Farkas wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure it can be put back, but your feedback as to why would be
> > appreciated.  Please be frank as I'd like to see ata as good if
> > not better than wd and if it isn't working as well as wd then we'd
> > like to know how and why.
> 
> Ok, seeing as how I'm affected by this, I'd like to suggest that maybe
> there should be a fallback mechanism in the ata driver - if it can't
> detect an ata compatable device, try the old wd method?

It already does that _if_ you supply it the right parameters...
See LINT for details...

-Søren


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