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Date:      Sun, 05 Dec 1999 13:37:59 -0800
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange SCSI sickness 
Message-ID:  <22121.944429879@monkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 05 Dec 1999 14:10:29 -0500. <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912051409210.23256-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912051409210.23256-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>,
Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>> The controller is an AHA-2940U (not wide).  The da0 disk is a Quantum
>> Viking 4.5GB SCSI.  I have never had any problem with this drive before,
>> even though I used it on Linux for several months.
>> 
>> This (FreeBSD) system has been running just fine, with no problems, for
>> several weeks.  And now this!
>
>Before throwing the "this worked in Linux!" crap around, please consider
>that it is possible Linux just didn't report the errors.
>
>just a possibility...

Ummm.... Hellooooo!

Is it just vaguely possible that you are perhaps just a little bit touchy
about anything that might even perversely be (mis-)construed as a compari-
son between FreeBSD and Linux?

Please read what I wrote.  No comparison of any kind between these two OSes
was either expressed or implied.

In order to help clarify the problem, I merely noted that this specific
*DISK DRIVE* has been operating with no problems (under *both* FreeBSD and
Linux) for some time now.

If anything, I believe that this combined evidence strongly points to a
newly-developed *HARDWARE* problem in the *DISK DRIVE*.

To reiterate, no OS comparisons were either expressed or implied.

Furthermore, having just witnessed (here) someone else being roasted over
an open flame for having FAILED to provide all relevant details regarding
the background of some problem, I find it rather inexplicable that _I_
should now be roasted for having done the exact opposite, i.e. having
provided as much potentially useful background information about my
specific problem as possible.

P.S.  I'm a complete agnostic with regards to OSes.  I have neither any
specific religious beliefs with regards to OSes, nor any desire whatsoever
to engage in religious flame wars about them.  I have better things to do.

P.P.S.  Since joining the -hackers list only a short time ago, I've made
every effort to restrain myself from my natural tendency to either begin,
or to participate in flame wars.  I've done that despite the fact that at
about half of the traffic here on -hackers since I joined seem to consist
of flames (of one form or another) that I have been tempted to jump into
the middle of, _and_ despite the fact that I myself have a well and widely
known propensity to start or participate in flaming myself.

I came here only to learn and to benefit from the combined wisdom here...
not to read flames or to be flamed.

A simple plea:  Can we all just get along?



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