From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 2: 0:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA3537B416 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 02:00:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0FA0ee11465; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:00:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <021401c19dab$7cfa6e40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <086093039220d12FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com> <01f601c19cd0$5b65e6a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <034b54618140e12FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:00:39 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian writes: > USB is "relatively" now on FreeBSD, though, and > I don't really trust it too much myself. I don't care for USB at all, and I would have preferred a true SCSI CF reader, but there seems to be no such animal. The only choices seem to be parallel port or USB, and USB is the lesser of these two evils (there are IDE PCMCIA readers, too, but I don't like to fool around with IDE at all--plus they are internal readers, and my PC cabinet is too crowded already). > But it's probably because the card presents itself > as a "virtual disk" and physical disks are not > completely time-indepdenent, and the driver doesn't > "know" that's talking to a fake disk that doesn't > really have a spinning platter . . . or maybe it's > higher up where the system figures if it hasn't heard > from a disk drive in xx seconds it's not going to > hear from it at all. No reflection on you personally, but your speculation illustrates the biggest problem with software today--especially open-source software: Nobody actually has any idea how it works, even if the source is freely available. Everyone just speculates, throwing darts, hoping to get something right, or at least to get something working. Is it any wonder that systems fail and crash? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message