From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 10: 2: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA83D14F92 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id DAA19942; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 03:01:06 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36DD7705.D2D087FC@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 02:53:09 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cejka Rudolf Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , sos@freebsd.dk Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? References: <199903031213.NAA23816@kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message