From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 14:24:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tank.skynet.be (tank.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D451214E09 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:24:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.25.55] (dialup567.brussels2.skynet.be [195.238.25.55]) by tank.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id XAA26458; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:23:54 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199912102205.PAA52840@panzer.kdm.org> References: <199912102205.PAA52840@panzer.kdm.org> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:22:57 +0100 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:05 PM -0700 1999/12/10, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > I agree that the CAM integration shouldn't be used as a precedent here. I > don't agree with your characterization of it as a "debacle", though. > > On the whole, we gained a whole lot and lost very little. Long-term, yes I believe we gained a lot. Short-term, what I recall having heard from some of the people who lived through it, well let's just say it was really ugly and nasty for a certain period of time. If possible, I'd like to see us avoid the same kind of problems with wd vs. ata, if we can. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message