On 07-Oct-2002 Paul Mather wrote:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
= [...] Note
= that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't
= be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices
= forever.
During my last cvsup (I track
John Baldwin wrote:
I can appreciate matcd being dropped for 5.0 on pragmatic grounds, but
it would have been nice to have it ride out the rest of 4.x, given that
it actually works right now. (As I understand it, it's the adoption
of GEOM that signalled the death knell of these old
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:26:50PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
John Baldwin wrote:
I can appreciate matcd being dropped for 5.0 on pragmatic grounds, but
it would have been nice to have it ride out the rest of 4.x, given that
it actually works right now. (As I understand it, it's the
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers?
I have at least 20 Panasonic 562/563s still in service in CD-ROM server
machines. They still run older versions of FreeBSD because the last time
I tried to update it the matcd driver
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers?
These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers
most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes
being made to the kernel API's
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote:
To repeat an offer made to a recent announce of phk to axe these
drivers, i have at least two working drives/controllers/docs for the
mcd(4) driver which i am willing to ship to anyone who wants to maintain
this driver in -current to prevent it
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
:Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers?
:These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers
:most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes
:being made to the kernel API's used by device
Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers?
These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers
most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes
being made to the kernel API's used by device drivers in -current.
Unless we can find some
On 03.10-17:01, John Baldwin wrote:
[...]
So, is anyone out there still using this old hardware?
[...]
i still have an old creative 1x drive in a 486 i use (i think they
are matsumi ???) -- anyway i haven't even compiled support so i'm not
going to cry
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers?
These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers
most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes
being made to the kernel API's used by device
I tried using the matcd(4) driver nearly a year ago and was having problems
with it. I tried contacting the author to remove some of the unreasonable
licensing restrictions he'd put on the driver and see if he could help me, but
I never got a response.
I think that it should be orphaned in
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers?
These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers
most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes
being made to the kernel API's used by device
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