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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds?
To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 12:07:40 -0700 (MST)
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> > So that FreeBSD will run on hardware as it comes from the manufacturer
> > so that people who want to run FreeBSD can be pure computer users
> > instead of a combination of computer user, petty cash drawer, and
> > hardware hacker?
> 
>   You're dreaming.  As long as hw manufactures make crap, computer usage
> will never be "pure".  Even the Linux solution requires the user to
> diagnose the problem as hw, and add the "hda=serialize" option.

It's possible to diagnose the chipset and automatically invoke the
workaround.  Linux has fallen down.

See the test program on www.intel.com for the controller bug.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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