Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:32:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Greg Childers <gchil0@pop.uky.edu> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912110732.XAA01032@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:18:55 EST." <4.2.0.58.19991210180808.00945190@pop.uky.edu>
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> Except that ATA currently does not work on my system. So I assume I'm not > the only one. Actually, to quote from your original message: ] According to technical product summary, the primary IDE interface, on ] which both my drives reside, is a PCTech RZ1000 on the PCI local bus. Nobody in their right mind uses the RZ1000 chipset for IDE. It's one of the classic "broken" parts (along with several of the CMD64x family) that you just don't use. You're probably not the only one out there with one of these controllers, but there aren't anywhere near that many of them still circulating after the massive problems that were encountered with that part _many_ years ago. > I am not a developer but I am running current on a test > system to see what's in line for stable. I do not mind when things break > for a while. But, since others did not seem to have this problem, I sent > an email to the list. The link is below. So far, I've heard no word, and > things are still broken. For this reason, I'd like wd to stay in the tree > until ATA is fixed. Otherwise, my machine is unusable. I'm not really in a position to determine what will or won't happen regarding support for known-defective hardware like the RZ1000 or the CMD640, but I'd say that it's likely to receive fairly low-priority treatment. It's not, of course, clear from your message whether the problem is actually related to the RZ1000 part itself, or whether it's actually a manifestation of the "system goes nowhere at startup" problem that other people are seeing (seems to be related to interrupt handling by the 'ata' driver). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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