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Date:      Thu, 04 Mar 1999 02:53:09 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, sos@freebsd.dk
Subject:   Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?
Message-ID:  <36DD7705.D2D087FC@newsguy.com>
References:  <199903031213.NAA23816@kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>

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Cejka Rudolf wrote:
> 
> What was bad with old static drive numbering?

Irrespective of all the valid reasons to allow for wiring (but not
mandate), static drive numbering is not BIOS compatible (thus, not
DOS compatible). This violates POLA.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	"FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker."



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