Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:19:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: veldy@visi.com (Thomas Veldhouse) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA drivers - HOWTO? Message-ID: <199909252219.AAA64826@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909251639200.16006-100000@isis.visi.com> from Thomas Veldhouse at "Sep 25, 1999 04:39:39 pm"
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It seems Thomas Veldhouse wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed over time that many people are test driving the new > ATA > Drivers. I attempted to do it a while back but I couldn't boot because of > the device name changes. I did not know what the new device names were. > Anyway - is there a simple HOWTO for using these drivers - and - are there > any gotchas I should be aware of? > FYI - I would be using them with a Western Digital 6.4G and 8.0G > drive > under UltraDMA33. For the disks you can continue to use the old wd* devices or the new ad* devices. For the atapi devices you need to use acd (CD) afd (ZIP&LS120) and ast (tape). Remember to MAKEDEV them all with a fairly new MAKEDEV (copy that from usr/src/etc/etc.i386) so the major/minor numbers are correct. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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