From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 14:34:54 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 CB0B415619 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id HAA01938; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:34:41 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36DDB40D.BC694111@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 07:13:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? References: <199903031826.KAA98780@pau-amma.whistle.com> 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 David Wolfskill wrote: > > >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. > > I'm at least as much against POLA violations as anyone... but the real > POLA violation I see is the apparent dependence on the BIOS, since it is > "controlled" by a process external to the UNIX environment. It is not a matter of dependence (which, obviously, does not exist). Is a matter of: 1) Doing the same as "everyone else" (meaning, here, the most common background for newbies; if one is not a newbie, POLA doesn't comes into play for this particular issue). 2) Having the OS see disks in the same way/ordering as the program that boot it does, *unless explicitly instructed otherwise*. > "DOS compatability" is not one of my concerns; I have difficulty imagining > a universe in which it would become one. Indeed, if someone were to > claim "DOS compatibility" for something, I would have no way of knowing > what that was supposed to imply, since I'm nearly completely unfamiliar > with DOS. (The few times I've tried to use it, I would get different > results from the same actions on my part, so I gave up.) :-) > And yes, I realize that neither my experiences nor perspective may be > representative of anyone else. Which, unfortunately, plays a part in 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