From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 3 17:44:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA12787 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 17:44:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12782 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 17:44:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA23103; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:35:39 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604040205.LAA23103@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: It isn't easy being "green"... To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:35:39 +0930 (CST) Cc: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604032123.OAA15011@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 3, 96 02:23:55 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > APM suspend/resume works on some machines in both -stable and -current. > However, folks are having a difficult time getting updated to -stable > and -current because of instabilities and other problems, so it's > difficult to know which machines work and which don't. I find the comment about upgrading totally bizarre. I've bootstrapped machines to both -stable and -current over the last couple of weeks, and never had anything that couldn't directly be tracked to a bad sup. > Finally, my .02 on the issue of the 'disable' spindown code is that we > shouldn't spend our time on it. It woudl be better to provide the > correct solution and fix the WD to handle timeouts better. The work > required to do turn-off green mode will mean constant maintenance and > will help but a few machines, while fixing the WD driver will work > reliably on all machines. *mumble* I still think that a rogues list would help... (gropes for justification) - ah, of course, for IDE CDroms! (*laugh*) > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[