Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:39:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611250839.JAA16028@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <306.848870190@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 24, 96 10:16:30 pm"
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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 2. Even if we did, I'd need a very dedicated tester with an NCR > controller to help me test it out on the only HW we know of that > fails. Hmm, you want me trashing my disk? ;-) I don't think that's as much of a problem. > 3. The unspecified German HeldenProgrammer that implemented the DD > mode clearly didn't bother with data-hiding, since he's fiddling > the internal libdisk variables in sysinstall rather than calling > Set_Bios_Geom() and a fitting "punishment" could be to "award" him > the task of making it work correctly :-) I really wonder who you might be referring to here. *grin* Well, if i knew better by the time i wrote that, i had done it... But i even had to write a man page for libdisk first, just to understand its concepts. So no surprise if i got something wrong. Unlike you, i don't appreciate hints delivered on bricks through windows, i also appreciate plain email telling me TRT. :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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