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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:11:57 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Code maintenance
Message-ID:  <19970402211157.WU57156@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199704021758.KAA13892@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 2, 1997 10:58:50 -0700
References:  <19970402091209.IH24661@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199704021758.KAA13892@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> So if the kernel interfaces have not changed, the code still works,
> just not excitingly well?

Yes, aic(4) and ft(4) still work, more or less.  We'd probably have
removed them otherwise.  But in particular ft(4) suffers from a not
very elegant design, and its unmaintained state resulted in it being
almost worthless over time, since it doesn't handle the more modern
drives that are available now at all.  If it remains unmaintained, the
day will come when all the previously existing drives it used to
support on the earth are dead.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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