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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:36:26 +0100 (MET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, kpielorz@tdx.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD updated Installation / Adminsitration Kit
Message-ID:  <199801301936.UAA02093@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199801300759.SAA03514@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Jan 30, 98 06:29:54 pm"

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As Mike Smith wrote...
> > 2. We still need to converge on a set of desired enhancements for
> >    the old sysinstall.  I don't mean to discourage discussion about the
> >    new one, but I'd like to finish out the old topic before it's hijacked
> >    by the new one. ;)
> 
> Indeed.  There are a couple of things about the install disk that 
> immediately come to mind:
> 
> 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(

At the very least it should be renamed to something describing what it
does. E.g. SCSINOTCQ. FAILSAFE IMHO could mean anything, up to a parachute
for a bungee jumper

Wilko
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