From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 16 23:51:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA28522 for current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 23:51:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA28507 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 23:51:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA18114; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 08:51:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA22385; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 08:51:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id IAA07886; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 08:35:30 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602170735.IAA07886@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [HELP] Cannot boot To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 08:35:29 +0100 (MET) Cc: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <8794.824521739@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 16, 96 05:48:59 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Thanks a lot. Any other good suggestion ? > > I think the only suggestion that will actually net you a working system > if those are your constraints is: > > "Get rid of that stinking promise controller!" > > :-) This is called ``The m-hundred-dollar solution''. Alternatively, dig into the code, learn to know why and how it fails, and go fix it. This is called ``The m-hundred-hour solution''. I'm sure, after doing the second, we have one guy more in the group of people praying in Usenet that ``IDE is basically crap''. I've seen three floppy tape maintainers here. All of them started very enthusiastic, started to understand the standards, started to understand the code -- and finally bought a Real Tape Drive. (Well, i'm not yet sure about the last of them...) -- 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. ;-)