From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 11 13:50:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C569214E8A for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:50:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA36915; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:50:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA06787; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:50:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001112150.OAA06787@harmony.village.org> To: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation Cc: Doug Russell , Wilko Bulte , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:03:54 PST." <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <200001112053.NAA06370@harmony.village.org> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:50:26 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Brooks Davis writes: : 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. I've retired perfectly good systems that can't handle having a 600MB disk connected to them. Anything over 540MB seems to give it fits, although I suppose that a BIOS upgrade would help. I couldn't even lie to the BIOS and tell it that the drive's geometry was such that only 540MB would be used. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message