From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 17:10:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles168.castles.com [208.214.165.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26236152B0 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27943; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:04:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903060104.RAA27943@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 10:26:57 PST." <199903031826.KAA98780@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 17:04:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 02:53:09 +0900 > >From: "Daniel C. Sobral" > > >Irrespective of all the valid reasons to allow for wiring (but not > >mandate), static drive numbering is not BIOS compatible (thus, not > >DOS compatible). This violates POLA. > > I'm at least as much against POLA violations as anyone... but the real > POLA violation I see is the apparent dependence on the BIOS, since it is > "controlled" by a process external to the UNIX environment. > > "DOS compatability" is not one of my concerns; I have difficulty imagining > a universe in which it would become one. Indeed, if someone were to > claim "DOS compatibility" for something, I would have no way of knowing > what that was supposed to imply, since I'm nearly completely unfamiliar > with DOS. (The few times I've tried to use it, I would get different > results from the same actions on my part, so I gave up.) "DOS compatibility" is irrelevant. What is at issue here is _firmware_ compatability. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message