Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-13 Thread Adam Wight
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:08:24PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > You'll need to take this up with Soren; I suspect though that the simplest > answer for you is going to be to stick with 'wd' until you get yourself a > less-broken disk, or manage to analyse the problem in greater depth. Ideally I (w

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Adam Wight wrote: > Against my better judgment, I've been running -current on, among other > machines, a Dell Latitude XP 475C... The wd driver manages to deal with > the inevitable cruft quite nicely, but the ata driver refuses to mount > the root partition. > > To the best of my knowl

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
> > > boot -v output using the wd driver follows: > > > > That's not very helpful; we know it works. How about some information on > > the problem? > > Well... I'd sure like to send a boot -v for a kernel using ata... I don't > have the right hardware here to use a serial console, however. Th

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Adam Wight
> > boot -v output using the wd driver follows: > > That's not very helpful; we know it works. How about some information on > the problem? Well... I'd sure like to send a boot -v for a kernel using ata... I don't have the right hardware here to use a serial console, however. Here are the rel

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
> Against my better judgment, I've been running -current on, among other > machines, a Dell Latitude XP 475C... The wd driver manages to deal with > the inevitable cruft quite nicely, but the ata driver refuses to mount > the root partition. > > To the best of my knowledge the chipset is the Wes