From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 17 11:53:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA24819 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from garnet.swn.com (garnet.swn.com [204.57.206.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24790 Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from freedom.swn.com (freedom.swn.com [204.57.206.194]) by garnet.swn.com (8.6.12/951025.1515-dah) with SMTP id LAA19930; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:52:51 -0800 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000 ( ) From: Don Dugger Reply-To: Don Dugger Subject: Re: sb16, matcd and workman To: ache@astral.msk.su cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Andrey A. Chernov writes: > In message Don Dugger > writes: > > >I'm using workman with my matcd, but I had to make some changes to the > >code. The workman code I found at "freebsd.org" (I think in incomeing) > >didn't support matcd. There's a list of structs to handle different drives > >and if it doesn't find the one in your system it uses a generic one, and > >the generic uses an ioctrl() thats not supported by matcd. Sorry I don't > >have the code with me at work or I could tell you more. I've been meaning > >to send the changes in, but no time of late. If you want them let me know > >and I'll look them up and send them in e-mail. > > Please stop fixing applications which does right thing instead > of drivers which does wrong thing. Workman works right, matcd driver > must be fixed. > After looking at the changes I made, I agree. The matcd driver is broken. It was some time ago. I guess that's why I didn't send in the changes.8^) Has the driver been fixed or is someone working on it? Sorry for the mis-step. Don 8) --------------------------------------------------------------- Don Dugger | e-mail: dugger@swn.com Engineering | Voice: (206) 885-0088 Securicor Wireless Networks | Fax: (206) 885-1087 15379 NE 90th Street | WWW: Coming Soon Redmond, WA. 98052 USA | ---------------------------------------------------------------