From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 23 06:23:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA27980 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 06:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA27975 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 06:23:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from tyger.inna.net (jamie@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by tyger.inna.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA07243; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:27:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:27:57 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: David Kelly , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) In-Reply-To: <24708.848726356@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: On a side note, the acer ide cdroms seem to work okay. I have installed 2.1.0-R, 2.1.5-S, and 2.1.5-R on machines with varying speeds of this brand, and had no problems. The only issue was the drive had to be secondary controller, master drive. I assume this was due to the generic kernel compile options. > > Input like this? (the data part of this ATAPI drive works, the audio > > stuff isn't fully functional). > > Uh, no. This actually fails on several counts: > > 1. It does not state the exact make and model, as I asked. We need > succinct information at the moment more than we need elaborate > script output from which such information must be intuited. > > 2. It contains information which would really be more relevant > to an entirely different class of bug report, e.g. audio > support. To be honest, for this round I'm not really interested > in audio support at all so much as I am data support. If it > is able to load a FreeBSD release then it's working more than > reasonably enough for our purposes. > > I'm not saying that audio support is not important, simply that > it is not relevant at this time. > > Thanks! > Jordan > Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.