WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread J.A. Terranson
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

Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
What hardware do you have that does not work with the ata drivers ? ---Mike 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

Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread J.A. Terranson
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.

Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread 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

Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread J.A. Terranson
Just means that I am stuck at 4.8R from here on in. So are a lot of other people... On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: 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

Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:08:48PM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: Just means that I am stuck at 4.8R from here on in. So are a lot of other people... To be honest, you're the first person in months I've heard complain about this, so I suspect there aren't a lot of people in your situation. I

Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 23), J.A. Terranson said: Just means that I am stuck at 4.8R from here on in. So are a lot of other people... I think if a lot of other people were still using the wd driver we'd have heard about it. GENERIC only has ata/ad, so I'd expect to see a lot more sysinstall

Re: WD drivers: Gone completely in 5.x?

2003-09-23 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 23), J.A. Terranson said: Just means that I am stuck at 4.8R from here on in. So are a lot of other people... I think if a lot of other people were still using the wd driver we'd have heard about it. I base my