From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 05:02:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24862 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 05:02:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA24856 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 05:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0xyG54-0032t5C; Fri, 30 Jan 98 14:02 MET Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:21:31 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #2 built 1997-Feb-8) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:20:35 +0100 (CET) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #7 built 1997-Jul-4) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: FreeBSD updated Installation / Adminsitration Kit In-Reply-To: <199801300910.TAA03753@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Jan 30, 98 07:40:41 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:20:35 +0100 (CET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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( > > > > 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) HP DDS drives work well. So where do i get a Sony from ? hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe "Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. And those who can't talk, talk about talking." (B. Shaw)