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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:22:16 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386
Message-ID:  <20000314162216.B68549@lucifer.bart.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150146330.3450-100000@alphplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:12:51AM %2B1100
References:  <20000314063350.D14789@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150146330.3450-100000@alphplex.bde.org>

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-On [20000314 16:15], Bruce Evans (bde@zeta.org.au) wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>> * Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [000314 06:25] wrote:
>> > I'm still using this driver.  Put it back.
>> 
>> I'm sure it can be put back, but your feedback as to why would be
>> appreciated.  Please be frank as I'd like to see ata as good if
>> not better than wd and if it isn't working as well as wd then we'd
>> like to know how and why.
>
>Stubbornness.  I don't like the way it does some things, and resolved
>not to debug it or use it until I have hardware that needs it.  Right
>now it supports less of my hardware than my version of the wd/wdc
>driver.  (It can't read a cheap cdrom which may have the wrong jumper
>settings.  The wd driver couldn't probe this cdrom but was easy to fix.)

With all due respect, stubbornness is not a valid reason in my eyes.

Following CURRENT in the last few months/years that I have, I have been
forced to bite the sour apple and make changes myself.  If I can do it,
surely you can do it as well.

`It supports less of my hardware', could you please substantiate?

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven          Network- and systemadministrator
<asmodai@bart.nl>                      VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands
BSD: Technical excellence at its best  http://www.bart.nl
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