From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 21:12:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05557 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:12:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp20.portal.net.au [202.12.71.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05549 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00709; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:39:53 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709260409.NAA00709@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:02:57 GMT." <199709260402.VAA00183@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:39:51 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > So how do you explain the IDE emulation mode on the older models? Any > > why the *^&%(*& did they discontinue it? > > Cheaper manufacturing for the daughterboard, I'm betting. And/or the > people who are including them in their new machines don't want them > bootable or swappable because of the Windows 95 bugs with removable > media Hmm. I'd buy either of those I guess. It's a serious pain in the ass though. > (the TSD for removable media devices silently corrupts pages > obtained from it when FS_ReadWrite is called with R0_SWAPPER_CALL; > you can't install most software from it if it runs from or opens a > DLL on the device -- most InstallShield based installs have to). > > Bet you didn't know *that* dirty little secret... Not until you first blabbed about it months ago. 8) > Luckily, miniport drivers can be written to be portable between NT and > 95, so NT has the bug too. 8-p. Hmm. This is a reason not to adopt the miniport interface for FreeBSD? mike