From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 17:00:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC8616A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.mfn.org (mx1.mfn.org [204.238.179.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9F443F85 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from measl@mfn.org) Received: from [204.238.179.37] ([204.238.179.37]) by mx1.mfn.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h8O005wt097681; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:00:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from measl@mfn.org) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:00:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "J.A. Terranson" To: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20030923195126.08f946b8@209.112.4.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:00:07 -0000 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > What hardware do you have that does not work with the ata drivers ? Mike, I don't want to get into a flame war here, as I've already been through this when the ATA drivers were first released: no matter what hardware I've used them with, I've had issues. The oldest I can understand, but I gave it another go two weeks ago with modern, brand new hardware (a new SiS based Asus that was on the HCL when I bought it, and a Maxtor 40g IDE) and had the same results. The 4.8 was rebuilt last night with WD drivers, and the 5.1 was *supposed* to be rebuilt tonight, thus my email. The ATA drivers are buggy has hell, regardless of all the screaming I've heard to the contrary: timeouts, with or without DMA disabled, hard write errors, etc. I just can't do it - especially since I am constantly told the drivers are good, and my hardware is bad: if I take the setup that dies under ATA and load either WD or *any other OS*, they work flawlessly. I am a FBSD shop, have been since 2.2.5R, but I cannot use the ATA drivers - I need something reliable (speed is irrelevant if it doesn't work). Hrmmm.... I wasn't meaning to rant on you. I just looked up and there it was :-( Sorry... Frustration. > > ---Mike //Alif > At 07:40 PM 23/09/2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > >Yes, I know they are obsolete. Nevertheless, they have their place, and I > >have no been able to get a config to run against a wd specifying conf-file. > > > >Are they truly gone, or is there a magic chicken I can wave over the configs > >to make them work yet again? > > > >I am not subbed to the list, so please reply directly as well as to the list. > > > >Thanks!!! > > > >-- > >Yours, > >J.A. Terranson > >sysadmin@mfn.org > > > > "Every living thing dies alone." > > Donnie Darko > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org "Every living thing dies alone." Donnie Darko