Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:53:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, paul@netcraft.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wd.c Message-ID: <199509301853.LAA01936@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199509301829.LAA29846@aslan.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Sep 30, 95 11:29:00 am
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> > >> But there won't be a month or two more of alpha and beta testing for > >> 2.1. It should stay in current. It's completely new and not currently > >> working code, it breaks all rules for 2.1 to bring it into stable. > > > >There has been some misunderstanding. The ATAPI code will not be > >enabled in the boot floppy. It will be enabled in a new > >`ide_cdboot.flp' file (or whatever I decide to call it). It's > >just there to give some alternative to those now many thousands > >of people with IDE CDROMs out there who would otherwise be left > >high and dry and none to happy about it. > > > > Jordan > > Are you making the kernel into a separate distribution so that the > installed kernel has ATAPI support in it for those who boot with the > ide_cdboot.flp? IMHO, a grave mistake is being made here if the ATAPI support is going into the 2.1 RELEASE is any form. Jordan claims that this will make 1000's of PC users happy. I claim it will create 800 bug reports from the 80% of those 1000 user for whom it shall fail, and put a lot of egg on the face of the 2.1 release. Ultimately this is David and Jordans decision to make though, and if this is there decision I hope they are prepared to handle this side effect. I can also attest that the -current version of the wd driver now seems to have rather serious problems with my pre ATA-1 spec disk drives, (Seagate ST-157A) that started about the time the ATAPI support went in. I did no debugging on it, I simply pulled the drives and threw them on the shelf as obsolete hardware. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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