From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 7:26:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295251563E; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 07:26:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from vega.vega.com (dialup3-11.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.226.139]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA03606; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:31:00 +0200 (EET) Received: from altavista.net (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05756; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:26:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Message-ID: <384FCA0E.C7C2001E@altavista.net> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:26:06 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Reply-To: sobomax@altavista.net Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! References: <199912091445.PAA42318@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 9 Dec, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Excuse me for possible off-topic, but I have what is seems for me fresh idea > > about this question. Why do not remove from wd driver support for chipsets > > already implemented/tested in ata driver? Thus both clans would satisfied > > i.e. users with unsupported by ata chips still will have a chance, while all > > other will be encouraged to use and test better (IMHO) ata... Eventually at > > There also exist cases where the chipset is supported but a particular > functionality isnīt supported yet (in my case itīs the possibility to > access MS-DOS formated ZIP-disks, harddisk access works well, and Iīm > not the only one with this problem (not counting the people which have > not tried to use the ata driver but need to access MS-DOS-ZIPs too)). Does Soren know about that? > And I think itīs better to spend someones time with other issues than > with digging into the wd driver. IMHO not much digging - several #ifdef 0 here and there will do the trick. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message