WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

[Mike Tancsa]

Sounds like you are out of luck. Perhaps the other OSes that work for you 
is the way to go.

         ---Mike

At 08:00 PM 23/09/2003, J.A. Terranson wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > What hardware do you have that does not work with the ata drivers ?
>
>Mike, I don't want to get into a flame war here, as I've already been through
>this when the ATA drivers were first released: no matter what hardware I've
>used them with, I've had issues.  The oldest I can understand, but I gave it
>another go two weeks ago with modern, brand new hardware (a new SiS based
>Asus that was on the HCL when I bought it, and a Maxtor 40g IDE) and had the
>same results.  The 4.8 was rebuilt last night with WD drivers, and the 5.1
>was *supposed* to be rebuilt tonight, thus my email.  The ATA drivers are
>buggy has hell, regardless of all the screaming I've heard to the
>contrary: timeouts, with or without DMA disabled, hard write errors, etc.  I
>just can't do it - especially since I am constantly told the drivers are
>good, and my hardware is bad: if I take the setup that dies under ATA and
>load either WD or *any other OS*, they work flawlessly.
>
>I am a FBSD shop, have been since 2.2.5R, but I cannot use the ATA drivers -
>I need something reliable (speed is irrelevant if it doesn't work).
>
>Hrmmm.... I wasn't meaning to rant on you.  I just looked up and there it was
>:-(   Sorry...  Frustration.
>
> >
> >          ---Mike
>
>//Alif
>
>
>
> > At 07:40 PM 23/09/2003, J.A. Terranson wrote:
> >
> > >Yes, I know they are obsolete.  Nevertheless, they have their place, and I
> > >have no been able to get a config to run against a wd specifying 
> conf-file.
> > >
> > >Are they truly gone, or is there a magic chicken I can wave over the 
> configs
> > >to make them work yet again?
> > >
> > >I am not subbed to the list, so please reply directly as well as to 
> the list.
> > >
> > >Thanks!!!
> > >
> > >--
> > >Yours,
> > >J.A. Terranson
> > >sysadmin at mfn.org
> > >
> > >         "Every living thing dies alone."
> > >         Donnie Darko
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>--
>Yours,
>J.A. Terranson
>sysadmin at mfn.org
>
>         "Every living thing dies alone."
>         Donnie Darko