From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 13:09:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AC416A4CE; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:09:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D5743D4C; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:09:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from [10.0.0.10] (12-218-40-24.client.mchsi.com[12.218.40.24]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20040826130956m91006u89ge>; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:09:56 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:09:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040824211131.GK760@zaphod.nitro.dk> <1093383676.725.123.camel@localhost> <20040826124356.GD707@arthur.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040826124356.GD707@arthur.nitro.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408260809.27146.josh@tcbug.org> cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking down devices in the Hardware Notes X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:09:57 -0000 On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:43, you wrote: > On 2004.08.24 14:41:17 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:11, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > > While working on the Harware Notes I have found two device > > > entries where I can't really determine which driver is supposed > > > to support them. > > > > > > Both were in version 1.1 of common/dev.sgml and not in the old > > > HARDWARE.TXT. I also tried grepping in the source tree, but > > > that hasn't helped in finding in the guilty drivers... The > > > devices are: > > > > > > Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers > > > Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers > > > > I just popped in disc1 from 4.1-RELEASE/i386 (the oldest CD-ROM > > set in front of me right now [1]) and both of these devices are > > mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT as being "not supported by the new CAM > > subsystem". This was a time when the release notes listed > > supported hardware, partially (but not completely) duplicating > > HARDWARE.TXT. > > > > I'm not sure what the state of these devices are now, or what > > drivers they were mapped to. But that gives you a pretty good > > idea how old they are. If no one speaks up after a suitable > > amount of time, I'd say just nuke 'em. :-) > > OK, thanks I think I will just poke -current and see if anybody > knows these devices, and nuke them if not. > > > [1] It still had the shrink wrap on it until ten minutes ago. I > > hope this wasn't like cutting the tag off a Beanie Baby. > > Hehe :-). I'm not sure if I'm following this thread correctly. :-/ The Future Domain 850/9** SCSI controllers haven't been supported since the 2.x days. (Not really a big loss, they are 8 bit ISA cards) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel