Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:49:22 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: Dermot McNally <dermot@sissdev.sps.mot.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, dg@root.com Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <19970721154922.61073@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: from Dermot McNally <dermot@sissdev.sps.mot.com> References: <21008.869326490@time.cdrom.com> <XFMail.970721143729.dermot@sissdev.sps.mot.com>
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On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 02:35:09PM +0200, Dermot McNally wrote:
>
> On 19-Jul-97 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> >It's far more common in the 8 bit cards, yes. I would, however,
> >hypothesize that the 16 bit cards have now (or will very shortly)
> >outnumber the legacy equipment. I do know that I've certainly
> >received a considerable amount of negative feedback over the choice of
> >5 ("5?! Who uses that anymore? 10! The default value should be
280/5 was one of the most common setting I was using in the past
for the WD8003 8 bit cards. I adopted this setting also
for those 16 bit cards (WD8013) the latter requiring to be programmed
for this value pair.
Another common setting was 300/10 for the 16 bit cards which is a jumper
selectable option on the WD8013 (phased out) and SMC Ultra 8216 cheapo
cards of these days.
I vote for keeping 280/5 because this doesn't rule out 8 bit cards.
> >10! What are you guys thinking?!") :-)
> >
> >How does the "user base" feel about this?
>
> 10, every time. Or 11 if you really want to, but not 5 and
> certainly not 3, for the very good reasons already pointed out. I
> would guess that anyone who still uses an 8-bit network card has been
> long enough at this game to know how to tweak the default value.
>
> Dermot
>
> ----------------------------------
> Dermot McNally, Motorola EMEA CCS, Muenchen
> dermot@sissdev.sps.mot.com, phone +49-89-92103 648
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