Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:45:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906231844210.89612-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906231413180.7457-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Doug wrote:
> 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.
atapi-cd, atapi-fd, atapi-disk are more descriptive (self-explanatory) for the config
file. acd, afd, and ad are shorter, in the concise "/dev/node" way. Complain to Soren
if you don't like it ;)
>
> Thanks for your response,
>
> Doug
> --
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> what it does.
> -- Will Rogers
>
>
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