It seems Thomas Veldhouse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have noticed over time that many people are test driving the new
> ATA
> Drivers. I attempted to do it a while back but I couldn't boot because of
> the device name changes. I did not know what the new device names were.
> Anyway - is there a simple HOWTO for using these drivers - and - are there
> any gotchas I should be aware of?
> FYI - I would be using them with a Western Digital 6.4G and 8.0G
> drive
> under UltraDMA33.
For the disks you can continue to use the old wd* devices or the
new ad* devices. For the atapi devices you need to use acd (CD)
afd (ZIP&LS120) and ast (tape). Remember to MAKEDEV them all with
a fairly new MAKEDEV (copy that from usr/src/etc/etc.i386) so
the major/minor numbers are correct.
-Søren
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