Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 21:51:39 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, mike@smith.net.au, alk@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors Message-ID: <199802062051.VAA02761@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199802061955.UAA06597@sos.freebsd.dk> from Sxren Schmidt at "Feb 6, 98 08:55:35 pm"
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As Sxren Schmidt wrote... > In reply to Wilko Bulte who wrote: > > And I cannot really understand why in parallel to this thread people are > > discussing adding useless junk (IMHO) called 'splash screens' to FreeBSD. > > > > If I wanted graphical junk during install I'll go for M$ stuff. On the other > > hand if people wanted to create an graphical install like Solaris Sparc > > has... > > Then I'd be running away screaming ;) Hm. Well, running away from M$ I can understand, but I personally think the graphical install stuff for Solaris Sparc is not bad. > I can tell you though, that a new incarnation of the ata drivers wont > have support for the old st506 & ESDI controllers. Its simply too > much junk to carry around. However we will still carry the old wd > driver that will support those antiques. As for the bad144 code, > well, it has never solved my problems, just added some :) This sounds just fine, because it at least does not eliminate the *option* to use old junk hardware. I have the feeling there are more FreeBSD boxes out there running on old hardware (can you say: machines no longer usable for M$ S/W? ) than you might think. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix --
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