Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:59:30 -0400 From: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) Message-ID: <199706192059.QAA12677@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970619210856.RZ13269@uriah.heep.sax.de> (j@uriah.heep.sax.de)
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:08:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) (Funny you should mention Linux here, historically it hasn't been a very shining example in this field. Their first floppy driver even hardcoded the DMA channel by a #define, and the timers were arranged in fixed slots.) Two years ago I installed Linux on my machine, when it only had two hard drives. The boot disk I used couldn't support two controllers. But six months later when I put the second hard drive in, the current version of the kernel supported the second controller. I did, however, get bitten by the old hard disk. For about a few minutes, the new disk was attached to the primary controller, with the old drives disconnected...
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