Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:09:20 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ST-506, ESDI and BAD144 ? Message-ID: <19991125130920.10078@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <33801.943436384@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 10:39:44AM %2B0100 References: <33801.943436384@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wednesday, 24 November 1999 at 10:39:44 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Sørens new ATA driver can handle all IDE disks as far as has been > tested now, but it doesn't provide bad sector remapping which is > needed for ESDI and ST-506 disks. > > Having two drivers fight for the same class of drivers is a rather > messy process, and it complicates the code a fair bit, not to > mention the clutter in end-user documentation. > > Considering that most of the machines with ST-506 and ESDI disks > are limited to 16MB ram anyway, I think it would be reasonable to > simply tell the users of these old irons to stick with the 3.X > branch until end of life (there is probably at least 1.5 years more > life in the 3.X branch judging from the history of the 2.2.X branch). > > So I would like to propose that we discontinue support for ST-506, > ESDI disks and BAD144 bad-sector remapping starting with the 4.0 > release. > > So, is anyone running -current on ESDI or ST-506 disks in > actual applications (as opposed for the gadget/novelty thrill or > testing purposes) ? I don't suppose it would be that big a deal to remove the old driver, but what speaks against leaving it in the tree along with a comment in the GENERIC config file saying "if you use antediluvial disk hardware, you may prefer to use an old driver too"? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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