From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 06:36:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA23977 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 06:36:04 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA23948 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 06:35:56 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id JAA02190; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:24:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:24:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint To: Mark Newton cc: Michael Smith , hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9511210542.AA14290@communica.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Mark Newton wrote: > Michael Smith wrote: > > > Amancio Hasty Jr. stands accused of saying: > > > fdisk/disklabel Pretty lame if you ask me -- perhaps we should required > > > FreeBSD to be booted by IBM Punch Cards.... > > > > 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? > :-) HEY! i got a Kennedy 9612 1/2-inch 9-track tape drive here that works very well, thank you. > [ Hey! At least we'd then have a device that we support which Linux doesn't > ] so we do have a device that we support which Linux doesn't Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346