From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 19 12:56:50 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740B214D4A; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA32433; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:54:29 -0700 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:56:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Matthew Dillon , dg@root.com, Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) In-Reply-To: <17897.937770803@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > >> Yes indeed there are: lack of funds for much needed HW upgrades. > >> This is actually a 1.8G Quantum Prodrive I inherited when a former > >> instance of freefall had a disk upgrade in early 1995 and currently > >> the only scsi disk I have to test with. > > > >Where are you at, physically, Poul? I'll buy you a wide/ultra SCSI > >controller and a couple 7200 RPM disks if this will help in getting > >fair performance estimates/evaluations.... > > I'm over in Denmark... It is more trouble with customs than it is > worth the effort, don't worry about it. I have a couple of pretty > good ATA disks which with sos' new driver does a good enough job. > Okay, then. Really, seriously, though- if we're all stuck arguing a major issue from different viewpoints for lack of < 1K$ equipment, this is an easy problem to solve from the K$ point of view (hadn't thought about customs- I guess I just can't express mail these puppies, can I? :-)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message