From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 4:20:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A1CC37BB25 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 04:20:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from me@camtech.net.au) Received: from dialup-ad-13-26.camtech.net.au ([203.55.243.154]) by camtech.net.au ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:50:08 +1030 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:49:43 +1030 (CST) From: Matthew Sean Thyer X-Sender: me@dx4.my-unregistered-domain.com Reply-To: thyerm@camtech.net.au To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Bruce Evans , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! old wd driver going away In-Reply-To: <200003141501.QAA70002@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: 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 Please leave the wd driver for those who cannot use the ATA driver. At least until the ATA driver gets support for more older disks. I cant be the only person using an old 80 MB IDE drive as / with another drive as /usr (a 400 MB SCSI). I haven't tried for a couple of months but the ATA driver didn't work over several different world builds back then and I haven't seen commits to indicate it will work now. dmesg from a less than a week old -CURRENT says the disk is: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 77MB (158440 sectors), 932 cyls, 10 heads, 17 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: driver is using old-style compatability shims Lots of people may say "buy new hardware" but the fact is that my 486DX4-100 with these crappy old disks does extremely well as my user-mode ppp connection to the net using NAT. It also runs a DHCP server, Squid proxy server, name server, and IMAP server very nicely. I also have no money for my FreeBSD hobby. Some of you will say "stick with 4.0-RELEASE or earlier" and thats what I'll have to do if wd goes but I do prefer to keep all 3 of my machines running -CURRENT so I can easily recover from bad -CURRENT experiences by grabbing binaries from another machine etc... (Of course I build world on the Celeron 300a and install it on the others). On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > > > > Yes... > > > > > > That's right. > > > > > > Use ata and related stuff instead. > > > > No. > > Yes. > > -Søren > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message