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.

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

Re: missing functionality

2000-04-22 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> <<[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 IBM PS/2 family supported them all, ST506, ESDI and SCSI

missing functionality

2000-04-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
< 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curr

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 wil