Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:03:39 -0600 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Greg Childers <gchil0@pop.uky.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991211130339.N760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199912110732.XAA01032@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:32:27PM -0800 References: <4.2.0.58.19991210180808.00945190@pop.uky.edu> <199912110732.XAA01032@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 23:32:27 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> [missing attribution to Greg Childers <gchil0@pop.uky.edu>]
>> Except that ATA currently does not work on my system. So I assume I'm not
>> the only one.
>
> Actually, to quote from your original message:
>
>> According to technical product summary, the primary IDE interface, on
>> which both my drives reside, is a PCTech RZ1000 on the PCI local bus.
>
> Nobody in their right mind uses the RZ1000 chipset for IDE. It's one of
> the classic "broken" parts (along with several of the CMD64x family) that
> you just don't use.
>
> You're probably not the only one out there with one of these controllers,
> but there aren't anywhere near that many of them still circulating after
> the massive problems that were encountered with that part _many_ years
> ago.
OK, and I think I can agree that we don't need to carry support for
this chip over into ata.
But what does Greg do? He has this hardware. He can do one of four
things:
1. Throw it away and get something better.
2. Carry on running 3.X forever.
3. Get pissed off with FreeBSD and go elsewhere.
4. Use the wd driver which has been left in 4.x for exactly this kind
of problem.
Why make life difficult for him?
Greg
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