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To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? 
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Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 01:15:42 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <19970513000817.01299@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> John-Mark Gurney writes:
: just boot single user (-s) and manually ifconfig it, test at will... :)
: 
: you don't always have to bring the whole system up to test minor parts
: of it...

Yup.  However, 90% of the time to get to that point is probing device
and timeouts on my machine (2 scsi busses and 2 IDE controllers).  I
haven't commented some of them out yet.

Warner