From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 8 7:12: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (indyio.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489FA14D47; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 07:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Received: from mars.rz.uni-sb.de (ns0.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.5]) by indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA1050404; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:11:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (maxtnt-274.telip.uni-sb.de [134.96.71.145]) by mars.rz.uni-sb.de (8.8.8/8.8.4/8.8.2) with ESMTP id QAA28164; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:11:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA05970; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:21:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <199912081421.PAA05970@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:21:27 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: <20585.944660874@axl.noc.iafrica.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 Dec, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs >> i386 architecture. > > I know there are issues that make it awkward to support both drivers, > but it's probably a good idea to keep the wd driver available for those > who need it, even if it requires more work to get it going than it does > to get the ata driver going. > > That said, this is one way to get the folks who're having trouble with > the ata driver to get off their butts and provide Soren with feedback, > so maybe it's not a bad idea to nuke wd after all. :-) It isn´t only a matter of providing feedback... the maintainer also has to work on it. I offered feedback in every mail regarding my problem with ata & msdos-ZIPs (they aren´t accessible), but most of the time I havn´t got a reply (Søren replied recently to Fritz Heinrichmeyer, he has the same problem). I´m not able to test it at the moment, but I havn´t seen a cvs-all message which said "Problems with MSDOS formated ZIPs fixed". I assume it isn´t fixed and I want to use the wd driver until it´s fixed. Poul-Henning: please wait until Søren fixed the problems some users have (we didn´t want to loose features, right?). Søren: I didn´t want to flame you, I only want to convince Paul-Henning to wait until you have time to fix those bugs. Bye, Alexander. -- We are what we eat; I'm cheap, fast, and easy. http://netchild.home.pages.de Alexander+Home @ Leidinger.net Key fingerprint = 7423 F3E6 3A7E B334 A9CC B10A 1F5F 130A A638 6E7E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message