Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:56:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191254200.42176-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <17897.937770803@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> > > >> Yes indeed there are: lack of funds for much needed HW upgrades. > >> This is actually a 1.8G Quantum Prodrive I inherited when a former > >> instance of freefall had a disk upgrade in early 1995 and currently > >> the only scsi disk I have to test with. > > > >Where are you at, physically, Poul? I'll buy you a wide/ultra SCSI > >controller and a couple 7200 RPM disks if this will help in getting > >fair performance estimates/evaluations.... > > I'm over in Denmark... It is more trouble with customs than it is > worth the effort, don't worry about it. I have a couple of pretty > good ATA disks which with sos' new driver does a good enough job. > Okay, then. Really, seriously, though- if we're all stuck arguing a major issue from different viewpoints for lack of < 1K$ equipment, this is an easy problem to solve from the K$ point of view (hadn't thought about customs- I guess I just can't express mail these puppies, can I? :-)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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