Remove all legacy ATA code parts, Thu Apr 4, 7c2b81b0e97e507aa2b3b3fac77056edcdf18669

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Thu Dec 19 19:13:18 UTC 2013


clutton wrote this message on Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 23:15 +0200:
> On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 11:34 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On 16 December 2013 01:37, clutton <clutton at zoho.com> wrote:
> > > Hi list.
> > >
> > > The commit message says:
> > >
> > > «Remove all legacy ATA code parts, not used since options ATA_CAM
> > > enabled in most kernels before FreeBSD 9.0.  Remove such modules and
> > > respective kernel options: atadisk, ataraid, atapicd, atapifd, atapist,
> > > atapicam.  Remove the atacontrol utility and some man pages.  Remove
> > > useless now options ATA_CAM.»
> > >
> > > Question: How am I suppose to use my PC Card HDD now?
> > > I used to use atadisk for this purpose before.
> > 
> > As long as it supports LBA, I think you'll be okay.
> > 
> > I noticed the CHS support is not quite .. correct. :(
> 
> Could you be more specific? I have a toshiba 2Gb pccard hdd.
> Of course it should support LBA!
> It doesn't appear as a device without the atadisk.
> 
> I used to mount this device from devd with those parameters

It should show up as a ada disk now...

If it isn't, please post a pciconf -lv and /var/run/dmesg.boot.

Thanks.

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