HAL on FreeBSD 5.5

Michael Nottebrock lofi at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 19 12:50:37 PST 2006


On Tuesday, 19. December 2006 21:39, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 19. December 2006 21:00, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> I'd like it to work on -RELEASE since we technically still support it.
> >> Any chance you can hook me up with root on this box?
> >
> > Unfortunately no. :(
>
> The problem is that 5.X does not support sending ATA ioctls through
> child devices.  They must be sent through the ATA parent device.  I can
> probably fix this, but without a working 5.X machine on which to do
> testing, it will be very difficult.

This sounds like it could be reproduced/tested in a VM, FWIW.

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