Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 02:27:09 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>, chris@netmonger.net, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912090227.CAA01369@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> of "Wed, 08 Dec 1999 15:45:39 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912081544500.23315-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
>
> >
> > [snip]
> > > We gained quite a bit from it, but let's not rewrite history. I
> > > remember quite clearly that there was a very popular Adaptec SCSI
> > > controller missing when the switch to CAM was made, and a lot of
> > [snip]
> >
>
> more importantly we lost the aha driver for a while.
>
> > we lost teh aic controller at that time.
Touche ! I've got my back end machine here (gate), the only machine
I can test the new-busified i4b software on, I've got an aha0 driver
that says ``aha0: status reg test failed ff'' stopping me from seeing
/home, /var and /usr/local, I've got a failing 1.2Gb IDE boot disk (I
have to physically kick the machine a few times now and again to make
it recover), I've got a second IDE disk that actually functions and a
third that locks up the ata driver on probe (I only found this out when I
changed the IDE controller in this machine about 2 weeks ago to
defeat some dodgy memory/cache). I've got a new 28Gb disk on the
floor that I'd like to replace the boot disk with if I could just get a
current build - but the last -current with a working ata driver is
from the 5th.
I just hope that the ata lockup was due to an i/o conflict with the
ISDN card that has now been fixed, but I have no chance of testing
this in ``the next few days''.
I have no problem with ata becoming standard. I have a big problem
with wd being removed. I see no good reason for not leaving it there.
If people want to tear working code out of the system, at least give
us some notice !
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