From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 2:58:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8562137B419 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 02:58:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 15 Jan 2002 05:58:00 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: USB CF reader (SanDisk) epilog Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 05:57:34 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <002301c19b4e$6ee9b950$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <034b54618140e12FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> <021401c19dab$7cfa6e40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> In-Reply-To: <021401c19dab$7cfa6e40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0ab070058100f12FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com> 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 On Tuesday 15 January 2002 05:00 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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? Well, if you expect people to read the code and really figure things out when you are just posting to a user group list your expectations are way too high. *You* are more than welcome to read and fix the code, though. I ain't going to put it too much time to fix a problem I don't even have with hardware that I don't even own. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message