From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 12 14:17:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA16617 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:17:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA16605 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA22153; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:17:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710122117.OAA22153@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. To: ac199@hwcn.org Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, tim@ppp6575.on.sympatico.ca, hoek@hwcn.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Oct 12, 97 05:10:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But, really, there's not a big difference. Overflow the screen > with useless "disabled" messages and potentially miss an > important advisory, vs. forever running a kernel with a ball and > chain tied to its feet. I'd say "useless" ``disabled''... There's always scroll-lock and dmesg (heh: "Are there no work houses, are there no prisons?"). What about the schmuck who disables his wd driver and can't figure out why his machine won't boot? 8-). It's a two-edged sword. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.