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To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: wd discontinued? Was: Re: IBM Netfinity 5000 Problem (ATA Driver Bug) 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:49:51 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 23:37:00 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200107032249.f63Mnpm38876@mass.dis.org> Mike Smith writes:
: Following discussions on -hackers is hardly required for people running 
: -stable.  I had hoped that we'd see the last of the ata incompatibility 
: issues resolved (especially with such mainstream hardware) before 'wd' 
: was really axed.

Also, there is no pc98 support in ata right now.  That's the biggest
class of hardware not supported by ata.  luckily, there are many
patches to ata to fix this that are floating around the pc98 circles
right now.

Warner

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