From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 25 13:58:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA19910 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 13:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mule1.mindspring.com (mule1.mindspring.com [204.180.128.167]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA19905 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 13:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by mule1.mindspring.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA20356 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:57:58 -0500 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970125215759.0084b5c4@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:57:59 -0500 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:30 PM 1/25/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > L*nux has an option `hda=serialize' to do this. Is there any chance >> > FreeBSD could have an CMD640B_SUCKS_ROCKS_SERIALIZE_REQUESTS option in the >> > kernel config file? >> >> Considering that a perfectly good, brand new EIDE controller with >> primary and secondary, and dual 16550 UARTs, and printer for $50, why >> bother? > >So that FreeBSD will run on hardware as it comes from the manufacturer >so that people who want to run FreeBSD can be pure computer users >instead of a combination of computer user, petty cash drawer, and >hardware hacker? Bingo. I get rather annoyed when trying to get another student to run FreeBSD, and he asks "will it run on my machine?". The last thing I need is to tell him "yes, if you buy hardware on this list.". The response is going to be something like "Well, it runs Linux just fine, so I'll stick with Linux.". CC line trimmed. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM House of Retrocomputing: - kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ - kevinneal@bix.com XCOMM "Rebooting with command:" -- SPARCstation 10 boot prom