From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 3 15:31:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378E037B407; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f63MUkw26697; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:30:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:30:45 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Soren Schmidt , , Subject: wd discontinued? Was: Re: IBM Netfinity 5000 Problem (ATA Driver Bug) In-Reply-To: <20010703130412.F28604@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Message-ID: 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 Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > With 4.3-RELEASE, possibly. With 4.3-STABLE and 4.4-and-future > releases, no - the 'wd' driver was discontinued. > > G'luck, > Peter So, what's the story with the wd driver going away in -STABLE?? It seems you are trying to do this very quietly hoping that no one will notice? Why no HEADS UP? How come nothing in UPDATING??? If I try and upgrade the 4.3-RELEASE boxes I have that still require the wd driver, will they still work? What about this quote from the ata author: "The wd driver is only removed from current, so you will still be able to follow 4.x..." http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=640514+642483+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-current/20000319.freebsd-current Inquiring minds would like to know.... -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message