Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-13 Thread Adam Wight
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:08:24PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > You'll need to take this up with Soren; I suspect though that the simplest > answer for you is going to be to stick with 'wd' until you get yourself a > less-broken disk, or manage to analyse the problem in greater depth. Ideally I (w

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Adam Wight wrote: > Against my better judgment, I've been running -current on, among other > machines, a Dell Latitude XP 475C... The wd driver manages to deal with > the inevitable cruft quite nicely, but the ata driver refuses to mount > the root partition. > > To the best of my knowl

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
> > > boot -v output using the wd driver follows: > > > > That's not very helpful; we know it works. How about some information on > > the problem? > > Well... I'd sure like to send a boot -v for a kernel using ata... I don't > have the right hardware here to use a serial console, however. Th

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Adam Wight
> > boot -v output using the wd driver follows: > > That's not very helpful; we know it works. How about some information on > the problem? Well... I'd sure like to send a boot -v for a kernel using ata... I don't have the right hardware here to use a serial console, however. Here are the rel

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
> Against my better judgment, I've been running -current on, among other > machines, a Dell Latitude XP 475C... The wd driver manages to deal with > the inevitable cruft quite nicely, but the ata driver refuses to mount > the root partition. > > To the best of my knowledge the chipset is the Wes

Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Adam Wight
Against my better judgment, I've been running -current on, among other machines, a Dell Latitude XP 475C... The wd driver manages to deal with the inevitable cruft quite nicely, but the ata driver refuses to mount the root partition. To the best of my knowledge the chipset is the Western Digital