From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 5 11:02:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07146 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:02:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA07095 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:02:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0y0WYk-00333NC; Thu, 5 Feb 98 20:02 MET Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:41:21 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #2 built 1997-Feb-8) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:40:09 +0100 (CET) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #7 built 1997-Jul-4) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors In-Reply-To: <199802051603.KAA20767@compound.east.sun.com> from Tony Kimball at "Feb 5, 98 10:03:30 am" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:40:09 +0100 (CET) Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" Tony Kimball wrote: > No, but rather because (or so I hypothesize) these devices reside > overwhelmingly in systems which will never be upgraded to 3.x, I suspect Terry's WD1007 will be even in a system which will then be upgraded to 12.x ... ;-) There is sooo much useful hardware out there which is useless for clicki-clacki OS'es but which is fine for Systems like FreeBSD, so why remove support for it ? hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe "Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. And those who can't talk, talk about talking." (B. Shaw)