From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 25 15:20:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7A214E52 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 15:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA64826; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:19:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199909252219.AAA64826@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATA drivers - HOWTO? In-Reply-To: from Thomas Veldhouse at "Sep 25, 1999 04:39:39 pm" To: veldy@visi.com (Thomas Veldhouse) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:19:55 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-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 Thomas Veldhouse wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed over time that many people are test driving the new > ATA > Drivers. I attempted to do it a while back but I couldn't boot because of > the device name changes. I did not know what the new device names were. > Anyway - is there a simple HOWTO for using these drivers - and - are there > any gotchas I should be aware of? > FYI - I would be using them with a Western Digital 6.4G and 8.0G > drive > under UltraDMA33. For the disks you can continue to use the old wd* devices or the new ad* devices. For the atapi devices you need to use acd (CD) afd (ZIP&LS120) and ast (tape). Remember to MAKEDEV them all with a fairly new MAKEDEV (copy that from usr/src/etc/etc.i386) so the major/minor numbers are correct. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message