From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 22 8:40:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from xap.xyplex.com (xap.xyplex.com [140.179.130.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5998515176 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rwhitesel@nbase-xyplex.com) Received: from pcrlw (pcrlw.xyplex.com [140.179.228.211]) by xap.xyplex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11279; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:28:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001501be8cd5$950f8ea0$d3e4b38c@xyplex.com> From: "Rick Whitesel" To: "Soren Schmidt" , "Christopher Masto" Cc: References: <199904210647.IAA33104@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:34:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: I built a version that removed the SCSI and ATM support with no change. Something has changed such that only one channel of the PCI IDE controller is reported. I will continue my investigation. Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: Soren Schmidt To: Christopher Masto Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 2:47 AM Subject: Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message