From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 13:55:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5D437C145 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-024.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.24]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05409; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA60819; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:55:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:55:04 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! old wd driver going away Message-ID: <20000315135504.D60742@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200003141501.QAA70002@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from me@camtech.net.au on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:49:43PM +1030 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:49:43PM +1030, 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 haven't tried for a couple of months but the ATA driver didn't work Such a report is _useless_ and can only create FUD. The ATA driver has changed quite a lot. How about *TRYING* the latest ATA driver before even emailing this list with concerns. You may surprisingly find that ATA works just great for you know, and you've done damage rather than help with this email. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message