Subject: Re: kern/22869: Slave IDE drive not detected
To: M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/23/2003 18:11:49
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:42:02PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:16:17AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <20030923091846.GC7025@antioche.lip6.fr>
> >             Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
> > : And also, it doesn't support pre-ATA drives.
> > 
> > Are any such drives still spinning and operational?
> 
> Yes. I do have one.
> However I just discovered that support for these in 1.5 and 1.6 is brocken
> (or it may just be that I now test it in a faster machine).

No it's not. It's a typo, which is there since 23-Jun-99.
It appeared sometime between 1.4 and 1.5.

So, probably nobody tried this since 1.4, or if someone did he didn't tell us
that it didn't work.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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