Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:32:14 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Jonathan Michaels <jon@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad144 missing? Message-ID: <00042200321400.00340@nomad.dataplex.net> In-Reply-To: <20000422141316.A792@phoenix.welearn.com.au> References: <20000421204946.A29420@isabase.philol.msu.ru> <20000421100024.A20588@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <20000422141316.A792@phoenix.welearn.com.au>
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Jonathan Michaels wrote: > > IIRC, the code was > > suffering from bitrot and the drives that really needed it will (ESDI > > and MFM mostly) aren't supported in 5.0. > > and what of all the people who still use this kind of hardware ? > > what are they supposed to do ? 1) Continue to run FreeBSD 3.x. It's still a very good OS. 2) Buy new hardware. It is getting cheaper every year. 3) Write new versions of the drivers. The drives are not being dropped because anyone objects to them, but rather that there has been no one who cares about them enough to maintain the code. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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