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:
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 7080 AT-TTT>, 32-bit, multi-block-16
wd0: 77MB (158440 sectors), 932 cyls, 10 heads, 17 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc0: driver is using old-style compatability shims
Lots of people may say "buy new hardware" but the fact is that
my 486DX4-100 with these crappy old disks does extremely well as
my user-mode ppp connection to the net using NAT. It also runs
a DHCP server, Squid proxy server, name server, and IMAP server
very nicely. I also have no money for my FreeBSD hobby.
Some of you will say "stick with 4.0-RELEASE or earlier" and thats
what I'll have to do if wd goes but I do prefer to keep all 3
of my machines running -CURRENT so I can easily recover from
bad -CURRENT experiences by grabbing binaries from another machine
etc... (Of course I build world on the Celeron 300a and install
it on the others).
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> >
> > > Yes...
> > >
> > > That's right.
> > >
> > > Use ata and related stuff instead.
> >
> > No.
>
> Yes.
>
> -Søren
>
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