Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:42:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210031534270.92684-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers? > These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers > most of which only support 1x speeds. :) 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. So, is anyone out there still using this old hardware? Note > that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't > be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices > forever. I had an mcd(4) 1x drive with its own custom controller. It was decommissioned 4 years ago. If I wanted to use a CD drive with that 486, I'd install an ISA ata card that could talk to a modern ATAPI drive. Can you foresee any problems with that approach? If not, I have no problem seeing mcd(4) go away. Sniff. I used that drive and floppies to install 2.0, which paniced as soon as I tried pppd. Ok, glad those days are over. Of course, we still have "stray irq 7" hanging around. That one is going to be 10 years old soon. ;-) -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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