Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:16:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906231413180.7457-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906231538430.86812-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
>
> > First a question, namely what is the current state of the ATA
> > drivers in -current? Are they reliable (where "reliable" goes by -current
> > terms obviously)? I finally am in a position to test them with a new
> > workstation that has IDE disks, so I thought I'd give it a go.
>
> For me, it's very reliable. It even supports Ultra DMA 2 mode! And of course,
> I'm happy with the atapi-fd driver :) See:
Great news, thanks.
> A device name isn't necessarily the same as a device node, you know.
Actually I do know that, but I've never come across a situation in
freebsd where I would call something one thing in my kernel config file
and something else in /dev. If you are saying that I ought to include
atapicd in my kernel config and use the acdN device node, that's all I
need to know, but it does bring up the question of why the two things are
different. It seems like unecessary obfuscation to me.
Thanks for your response,
Doug
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