From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 3 15:11:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DAB37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E083E43E4A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from m2a2.myip.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E032FA3831 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 00:11:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 55897BF0A; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 00:11:43 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? References: In-Reply-To: (John Baldwin's message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:01:07 -0400 (EDT)") From: Matthias Andree Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 00:11:43 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin writes: > Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers? Yes, I'm using mcd, but it doesn't quite work. Bigger reads (package file size) break. The same hardware is fine with W*nd*ws NT 4 (dual-boot). > These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers > most of which only support 1x speeds. :) I beg to differ. There's also 2x speed, and it's still sufficient to a) read a data file occasionally or b) install software occasionally or c) play audio. > There are several changes being made to the kernel API's used by > device drivers in -current. Unless we can find some people who > actually use these devices and can test patches for these drivers we > will have to drop support for them. The mcd(4) issues that are already in 4.7-RELEASE would need to be figured. I'm not entirely sure that it's NOT the board I/O timing, but if it was, I'd shrug over why NT then worked. However, if the changes are NOT to 4-STABLE, then I'm out. I cannot migrate that machine to 5-CURRENT, in that case, testing would have to wait until 5-STABLE. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message