missing functionality

2000-04-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 01:45:20 -0400 (EDT), "Brandon D. Valentine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: to include support for the MCA bus. The vast majority of MCA bus machines in existence utilize ESDI because they predate the UDMA and AFAIK, the only MCA disk controller supported does SCSI. -GAWollman

Re: missing functionality

2000-04-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 01:45:20 -0400 (EDT), "Brandon D. Valentine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: to include support for the MCA bus. The vast majority of MCA bus machines in existence utilize ESDI because they predate the UDMA and AFAIK, the only MCA disk controller supported does SCSI. The

Re: missing functionality

2000-04-22 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: However, FreeBSD just went ahead with its first release to include support for the MCA bus. The vast majority of MCA bus machines in existence utilize ESDI because they predate the UDMA and ATA66 efforts. If we are to support MCA, how can we

Re: missing functionality

2000-04-22 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: AFAIK, the only MCA disk controller supported does SCSI. The IBM PS/2 family supported them all, ST506, ESDI and SCSI... I think he is talking about the MCA disk controllers supported by FreeBSD, which are the Buslogic MCA and the Adaptec MCA.

missing functionality

2000-04-21 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
This thread began on -STABLE; I am moving it to -CURRENT and have crossposted. Please, followups to -CURRENT. On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Jonathan Michaels wrote: actually see bad blocks your disk is about to die. IIRC, the code was suffering from bitrot and the drives that really needed it will