From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 18 16:06:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA06709 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:06:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA06701 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:06:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA12869; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:52:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701182352.QAA12869@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:52:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "J Wunsch" at Jan 18, 97 10:56:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. It doesn't prevent me using it; it is just an annoying log message because it shouldn't be being triggered in the first place. > 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. Well, historically I've always thought all removable media (even floppy disks) should be treated differently. That means that rolling it into the sd driver is probably a mistake. Even if you throw out floppies, you still have IDE removable media to consider. And I think hot-pluggable devices (like PCMCIA cards) should be covered by the same overall umbrella. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.