From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 00:15:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA23076 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:15:23 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA23066 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:15:19 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA22170 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:13:03 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511210813.IAA22170@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:13:03 +0000 () Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com In-Reply-To: <9511210542.AA14290@communica.com.au> from "Mark Newton" at Nov 21, 95 04:12:29 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1060 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Mark Newton stands accused of saying: > > Michael Smith wrote: > > I can do that, if I can find the guy around here with the card hardware. > > You can't even get your half-inch tape drive working with FreeBSD. > Why should we sit back and assume you can get us booting from punch-cards? > :-) Argh, insulted publically too! I did too have it working; it just wouldn't write to the tape properly 8( And it works just fine as a table now. That only took a few hours with a screwdriver to remove the unneccessary bits 8) > [ I prefer front-panel toggle switches myself... ] You would 8) > Mark Newton Email: newton@communica.com.au -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[