From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 11 13: 5:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B59D14CF7 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10756; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:03:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:03:54 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Warner Losh Cc: Doug Russell , Wilko Bulte , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation Message-ID: <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200001112053.NAA06370@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <200001112053.NAA06370@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Doug Russell writes: > : See, I knew there was a reason I hung on to all these 1M 30 pin SIMMs. :) > : Old 386/40s sure make nice little router/modem/whatever boxes. :) > > Until their hard disks go south :-(. The biggest problems I have with > them is that they also tend to dislike newer ATA disks. I think that's why IBM has jumpers on some of their disks that limit them to 2GB. I can't see why else you would want to take a perfectly good 8GB+ disk and use it as a 2GB drive. Of course, some of them may not even tolerate that much space. -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message