Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:26:06 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <384FCA0E.C7C2001E@altavista.net> References: <199912091445.PAA42318@Magelan.Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 9 Dec, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Excuse me for possible off-topic, but I have what is seems for me fresh idea > > about this question. Why do not remove from wd driver support for chipsets > > already implemented/tested in ata driver? Thus both clans would satisfied > > i.e. users with unsupported by ata chips still will have a chance, while all > > other will be encouraged to use and test better (IMHO) ata... Eventually at > > There also exist cases where the chipset is supported but a particular > functionality isnīt supported yet (in my case itīs the possibility to > access MS-DOS formated ZIP-disks, harddisk access works well, and Iīm > not the only one with this problem (not counting the people which have > not tried to use the ata driver but need to access MS-DOS-ZIPs too)). Does Soren know about that? > And I think itīs better to spend someones time with other issues than > with digging into the wd driver. IMHO not much digging - several #ifdef 0 here and there will do the trick. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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