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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:12:11 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        pialkin@abel.pdmi.ras.ru, ache@nagual.ru, spblug@tsctube.spb.su, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATAPI patch
Message-ID:  <199609131912.MAA09402@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <4695.842612893@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 13, 96 04:08:13 am

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> > Ugh. Got a point. 
> > Yeah - i think it is possible to stay DELAYs only in atapi_probe()
> > - all others are not so neccesary.
> 
> Erm, this is engineering here, no one will hurt you for being more
> precise. :-) Can you perhaps do some testing and verify this by more
> scientific methods?

So if you have 16 different delays, it should only take you 2^16 or
65536 reboots (per ATAPI device per IDE controller) to determine.

Or 2^16 - 2^15 + 2^14 - 2^13 ... if you btree your testing... 8^).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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