Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:25:26 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: TESTERS NEEDED: Softupdates looks Very good. Message-ID: <19980719222526.A25289@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712172232.15612A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from Chris Dillon on Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 05:30:13PM -0500 References: <19980711105643.41001@mi.uni-koeln.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712172232.15612A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On 1998-07-12 17:30 -0500, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> wrote: > > Negotiations may be started by both the drive or host adapter > > at any time. But except for IBM, most vendors leave it up to > > the host system to send the first message (which the driver > > does after receiving the result of an INQUIRY command). > > Ok, makes sense.. I was just wondering. :-) > > And I guess that last part about IBM drives is a GoodThing? It doesn't really matter. The IBM driver have other annoying firmware features (e.g. can't deal with a "start motor" command in certain situation where it could be considered a NOP), and they sometimes drop the number of tagged commands they can deal with for no apparent reason. But I'm still thinking that the DDRS is a rather good buy, currently ;-) Regards, STefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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