Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:25:27 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: pialkin@abel.pdmi.ras.ru, ache@nagual.ru, spblug@tsctube.spb.su, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI patch Message-ID: <589.842649927@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:12:11 PDT." <199609131912.MAA09402@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> So if you have 16 different delays, it should only take you 2^16 or > 65536 reboots (per ATAPI device per IDE controller) to determine. I suspect it'd be more like a combination binary and exhaustive search - do I need them in *this* section? OK, how many? Next section... Or you could work backwards and simply start removing them until something broke, assuming that eliminating even one unnecessary delay is worth the effort. Jordan
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