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Date:      Fri, 04 Oct 2002 00:11:43 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)?
Message-ID:  <m365wj9nq8.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org> (John Baldwin's message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:01:07 -0400 (EDT)")
References:  <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers?

Yes, I'm using mcd, but it doesn't quite work. Bigger reads (package
file size) break. The same hardware is fine with W*nd*ws NT 4 (dual-boot).

> These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers
> most of which only support 1x speeds. :)  

I beg to differ. There's also 2x speed, and it's still sufficient to a)
read a data file occasionally or b) install software occasionally or c)
play audio.

> There are several changes being made to the kernel API's used by
> device drivers in -current.  Unless we can find some people who
> actually use these devices and can test patches for these drivers we
> will have to drop support for them.

The mcd(4) issues that are already in 4.7-RELEASE would need to be
figured. I'm not entirely sure that it's NOT the board I/O timing, but
if it was, I'd shrug over why NT then worked.

However, if the changes are NOT to 4-STABLE, then I'm out. I cannot
migrate that machine to 5-CURRENT, in that case, testing would have to
wait until 5-STABLE.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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