From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 5:20:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BA91549B for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 05:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10IBXV-0002kp-00; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:18:17 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Ladavac Marino Cc: Cejka Rudolf , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.dk Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:07:22 +0100." <97A8CA5BF490D211A94F0000F6C2E55D097552@s-lmh-wi-900.corpnet.at> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 15:18:17 +0200 Message-ID: <10590.920467097@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:07:22 +0100, Ladavac Marino wrote: > [ML] Well, it's for those people who plug a drive occasionally > into a computer. They don't want other drives moved around. Thanks for the feedback. Jeremy Lea also provided in private mail quite a detailed example of why device wiring for the ATA* driver is desirable. Guess the answer for now is that people who can't live without statically numbered drives continue to use the older IDE driver or mail Soren diffs for adding device wiring support. :-) Thanks again, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message