From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 26 02:49:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA25445 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 02:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (word.smith.net.au [202.0.75.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA25423 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 02:49:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00895; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:16:43 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709260946.TAA00895@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: S ren Schmidt cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:39:15 +0200." <199709251939.VAA00387@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:16:41 +0930 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA25434 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Natch. Still, NetBSD treats it as a SCSI disk that just has the bad > > fortune to be attached to an IDE interface. That's gotta count for > > something 8) > > True.. Heh. And of course you don't have the time to do it that way? 8) > > > If anybody feels like throwing a drive in my direction, I could be > > > persuaded to give it a try... > > > > Uh, a bit far away here. How about a login on a machine with one? 8) > > Well it takes some of the motivation to do it, and there is nothing > that beats watching the drive go "grrr bonk bonk" when you do something > wrong :) *chuckle* Yeah, there is that. Mechanical hardware can be _very_ satisfying to play with. 8) (Radar gear can be fun too, but you can't actually _see_ the radiation, only its effects...) mike