From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 18 14:21:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA02077 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:21:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA02068 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:21:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA06258 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 23:21:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA03050; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 22:56:38 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 22:56:38 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre References: <199701182022.NAA12406@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701182022.NAA12406@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 18, 1997 13:22:50 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > Fine. I'll just note that you don't have an error in that list > because you don't have a JAZ drive. I only have an MO drive. However, there's usually a cartridge in it, so i can't tell you how it would look otherwise... Note that this is so since the BIOS is too stupid, not FreeBSD. It takes some 1 minute or more timeout to boot if there's no cartridge in. FreeBSD can handle booting without it much better (maybe there was some mildly annoying message, but that's nothing compared to useless waiting). I never said that the boot behaviour couldn't be improved. But i don't think this is the most urgent problem with the JAZ drive. The unit attention problem (for example) is much more serious. We still need to decide whether we want a separate driver for the removable media devices (`od' would be a good candidate here), or whether the sd driver should all handle this. There's no ultimate agreement yet on this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)