Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 05:27:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, karl@Denninger.Net, tom@uniserve.com, dnelson@emsphone.com, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? Message-ID: <199810010527.WAA26027@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810010236.TAA05209@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 30, 98 07:36:24 pm
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> 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"? BTW, it's rather trivial to have a "probe me harder" option for doing a SCSI bus reset and long duration timeout probe, and export this to the user install level, if necessary. I think the IDE issue is a good point. People with IDE hardware in their machines should be punished by making them wait to boot... 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
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