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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:13:05 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, sycheng@cis.ufl.edu
Subject:   Re: [HELP] Cannot boot
Message-ID:  <199602170943.UAA01438@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199602170735.IAA07886@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 17, 96 08:35:29 am

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J Wunsch stands accused of saying:
> 
> I'm sure, after doing the second, we have one guy more in the group of
> people praying in Usenet that ``IDE is basically crap''.
> 
> I've seen three floppy tape maintainers here.  All of them started
> very enthusiastic, started to understand the standards, started to
> understand the code -- and finally bought a Real Tape Drive.  (Well,
> i'm not yet sure about the last of them...)

One could say the same thing about 8250-family UARTs 8( 

(For all those people that have responded in the positive about the
 422/485 driver, please be a little patient; I've broken the interrupt
 handler adding support for external drive control.  I should have it
 working again sometime Monday, and I'll update you then...)

> cheers, J"org

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