From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 17 01:39:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA02817 for current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:39:19 -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 BAA02808 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:39:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA01438; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:13:05 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602170943.UAA01438@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: [HELP] Cannot boot To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:13:05 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, sycheng@cis.ufl.edu In-Reply-To: <199602170735.IAA07886@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 17, 96 08:35:29 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > 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...) One could say the same thing about 8250-family UARTs 8( (For all those people that have responded in the positive about the 422/485 driver, please be a little patient; I've broken the interrupt handler adding support for external drive control. I should have it working again sometime Monday, and I'll update you then...) > cheers, J"org -- ]] 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. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[