From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 4:26:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9072537B944 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 04:26:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA78148; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:26:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200003151226.NAA78148@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: HEADS UP! old wd driver going away In-Reply-To: from Matthew Sean Thyer at "Mar 15, 2000 10:49:43 pm" To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:26:05 +0100 (CET) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), asmodai@bart.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] 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 It seems Matthew Sean Thyer wrote: > 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: Well, you could supply me with data on what goes wrong and help to get it resolved, thats the way things work around here... The wd driver is only removed from current, so you will still be able to follow 4.x... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message