From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 23:46:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FFB16A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep15-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D26F43FD7 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from sitetronics.com ([213.46.142.207]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20030923063435.GXRZ6169.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@sitetronics.com>; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:34:35 +0200 Message-ID: <3F6FE92B.5040906@sitetronics.com> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:33:15 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Mitchell References: <410-220039122131250707@M2W063.mail2web.com> <20030922132556.GC66910@llama.fishballoon.org> <3F6F0BB0.9020506@sitetronics.com> <20030922205234.GB75844@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20030922205234.GB75844@llama.fishballoon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:46:14 -0000 Scott Mitchell wrote: >This is fine - just an informational message rather than anything >actually wrong. > > Out of curiosity, what does that indicate (or where can I find comments in the source)? >Indeed... the docs should probably just list the classes of device that >should work, rather than specific instances. I did once start updating >the umass(4) manpage to say this, but got discouraged by a flurry of >list messages complaining that XYZ device didn't work - didn't feel up >to documenting the intricacies of the quirking mechanism. Now that this >is less of a problem, I should probably pick that up again. > >Anyway, glad you got it working. > > Yes, I also got an email from the product manager of the SimpleDrive asking me what sort of documentation I was looking for. This seems like an open-source friendly company; just so that we can keep this in mind in case there are portable storage device/hard drive issues in the future. It looks like Firewire is also taken care of, but you never know what else there might be in the future. --Devon