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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:26:05 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        thyerm@camtech.net.au
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), asmodai@bart.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! old wd driver going away
Message-ID:  <200003151226.NAA78148@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003152237490.2380-100000@dx4.my-unregistered-domain.com> from Matthew Sean Thyer at "Mar 15, 2000 10:49:43 pm"

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It seems Matthew Sean Thyer wrote:
> Please leave the wd driver for those who cannot use the ATA driver.
> At least until the ATA driver gets support for more older disks.
> 
> I cant be the only person using an old 80 MB IDE drive as / with
> another drive as /usr (a 400 MB SCSI).
> 
> I haven't tried for a couple of months but the ATA driver didn't
> work over several different world builds back then and I haven't
> seen commits to indicate it will work now.  dmesg from a less than
> a week old -CURRENT says the disk is:

Well, you could supply me with data on what goes wrong and help
to get it resolved, thats the way things work around here...

The wd driver is only removed from current, so you will still
be able to follow 4.x...

-Søren


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