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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:912 comp.os.386bsd.questions:4916 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 GAMMA - first netwide release In-Reply-To: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 7 Sep 1993 23: 59:22 GMT Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Sep7183704@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: little lizard city References: <JKH.93Sep2204611@whisker.lotus.ie> <CCvFIC.9tp@pluto.rain.com> <26j78q$f57@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 01:37:04 GMT Lines: 24 In article <26j78q$f57@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: Hmm, the most recent version has this line as well. WD1003 (any generic IDE) (And I should really change this to WD1003 (any generic IDE/MFM/RLL/ESDI) So, I'll do that now. Heh. Still not quite right. All ESDI and IDE drives use WD1007-series controllers. There are command differences between WD1003 and WD1007 series controllers. The NetBSD driver takes these into account. For instance, the information needed for the following probe message (from NetBSD) is not available on a WD1003 controller. wd0 at wdc0 targ 0: 322MB 1224 cyl, 15 head, 36 sec <UltraStor Ultra-12> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A WD1003 controller fails to execute that command. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca