Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:59:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.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.4.10.10210040356210.75653-100000@moo.sysabend.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 have an old ISA SB16 with the matcd interface on it and the 2x Creative (Matsushita/Panasonic) CD-ROM drive that goes with it. I'd be more than happy to ship these off to the project if the project wants them. Last time I bothered to plug them into a machine and check them, they were still functional. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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