From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 01:52:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28677 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:52:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28607; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA03866; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:15:03 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801300945.UAA03866@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), hm@kts.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD updated Installation / Adminsitration Kit In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 01:33:16 -0800." <199801300933.BAA26385@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:15:01 +1030 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id BAA28634 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > > > > FAILSAFE should be ripped out of GENERIC, at least until we know why it > > > > causes the NCR driver to spit when talking to some tape drives. > > > > Nothing else uses it anyway. 8( BTW I didn't mean to imply that FAILSAFE in the ncr driver wasn't there for a reason, rather that no other drivers seem to use it. > > > I hope you know that it will then be impossible to install and operate > > > FreeBSD on HP3725/28/etc. disks. > > > > At last, a reason. OK, so get someone with one of these disks and a > > Sony DDS drive and let them work out what to do. 8) > > I have the HP disks, but no tape .... *mumble* What is it about the HP disks that's actually important here? The only things that FAILSAFE seems to do are set NCR_DFLT_TAGS to 0 and set CDROM_ASYNC. Is it just that these disks can't handle tagged commands? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\