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Date:      Fri, 04 Oct 2002 07:20:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      home@jukkis.net
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021004072056.home@jukkis.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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I'm quite sure they aren't actually even supported anymore, since long 
long time ago, after I upgraded my 2.2.5 to 2.2.6, I got problems with my matcd
drive(s, I had 3), and I was told to get a real atapi drive, both in -questions
and in -stable. (And that was verified working drives, I rolled back to 2.2.5
until I had bought an atapi drive)

and therefore at least I couldn't care less if the support was dropped, since
they aren't actually supported at the moment either. 

On 03-Oct-2002 John Baldwin wrote:
> Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers?
> These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers
> most of which only support 1x speeds. :)  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.  So, is anyone out there still using this old hardware?  Note
> that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't
> be dropped until 5.0.  4.x. would continue to support these devices
> forever.
> 
> -- 
> 
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