From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 30 22:21:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15160 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:21:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15145 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13313; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:21:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd013219; Wed Sep 30 22:21:17 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA25695; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:21:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810010521.WAA25695@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 05:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, karl@Denninger.Net, tom@uniserve.com, dnelson@emsphone.com, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810010236.TAA05209@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 30, 98 07:36:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The "bootable" qualifier is a non-issue. The correct question would be > "does anyone have a device which is not ATA-3 compliant and/or takes > some time to respond to a Software Reset command"? > > You were the WD1007 champion for a long time, Terry. Still carrying > the flag? Sure. WD1007 ESDI probes very, very quickly, since you are required to identify the drives in CMOS, and the kernel can read CMOS. ...NEXT! 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message