From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 4 3:55:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1178937B401; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E6D43E65; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:55:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D8CF87584; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12A01D91; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:59:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: John Baldwin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message