Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:53:54 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: veldy@visi.com (Thomas Veldhouse) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CMD640 and ATA drivers Message-ID: <200003141553.QAA83093@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003140921230.29393-100000@isis.visi.com> from Thomas Veldhouse at "Mar 14, 2000 09:25:27 am"
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It seems Thomas Veldhouse wrote: > Are there any plans to support the buggy CMD640 interface in the future > now that 4.0-RELEASE has come and gone? I have a box that is running 3.4 > happily, and it has this interface. I really would like the chance to use > some of the 4.0 features, but I can not while support for this interface > lacks. > > Right now, the code does identify the controller and give a warning about > a buggy interface. It then proceeds to choke and die on the CD-ROM probe. > I will gladly post more accurate details (I have already in the past) if > such support will eventually be [re]added. It worked until the latest newbus changes, I'm looking at it, but havn't found anything obvious yet. But seriously you want to get another ATA interface, the CMD640 is _broken_ and no software can help that, you are playing russian roulette with your data. Get a promise, abit or siig controller and use that instead... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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