From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 14 12:57:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0960215089 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA00301; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:57:36 -0800 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:57:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Jason Thorpe , "David O'Brien" , Craig Burgess , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaPC post-install BOOT - how? In-Reply-To: <199911142012.NAA66094@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In any case, my guess is that when Gerard's driver goes into the tree, we > will not be getting rid of the current ncr driver. We'll either make it > optional, and make the current NCR driver the default, or adjust the probe > routines so that when the sym driver is present, the ncr driver will only > attach to the 810, 815 and 825. Probably ought to follow Gerard's direction and have his driver called 'sym' and the older driver retains 'ncr'. What I was *meaning* when I said what I said is that with a newer and better driver for the newer cards coming down the pipe, *don't waste money* buying older boards which are going to not be as well maintained, etc. *if* you have a perfectly good IDE interface. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message