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Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB
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In-Reply-To: <199805191407.QAA02408@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at May 19, 98 04:07:52 pm
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> 
> Erhm, this is not in the 2.2-stable charter folks, the patches that
> should go into 2.2-stable should only be bugfixes etc, the next thing
> is that somebody wants the SMP code into 2.2-stable...
> There has to be a line drawn somewhere....

Err, it isn't worth arguing the point, but this _is_ a bug as far as I
am concerned.  I can't specify the CHS setup I need to use this drive,
I get errors with this drive attatched.  I cannot format the drive
correctly, I cannot use the drive correctly.  Why not?  Because LBA
is broken on 2.2.  I'd call that a bug.

I appreciate, and approve of FreeBSD's attitude to implementing things
slowly, and more cautiously as compared to Linux, but sometimes
you seem over cautious to me.

I now have a Hans Huebner's patch, and will be applying this sometime
soon, so to an extent I am not fussed.  I just don't entirely agree with
where the line has been drawn in this case.  

Julian
Unix Admin, Internet Vision

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