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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:27:01 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 
Message-ID:  <27833.953047621@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 02:12:51 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150146330.3450-100000@alphplex.bde.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150146330.3450-100000@alphplex.bde.org>, Bruce Ev
ans writes:
>On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>> * Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [000314 06:25] wrote:
>> > I'm still using this driver.  Put it back.
>> 
>> I'm sure it can be put back, but your feedback as to why would be
>> appreciated.  Please be frank as I'd like to see ata as good if
>> not better than wd and if it isn't working as well as wd then we'd
>> like to know how and why.
>
>Stubbornness.  I don't like the way it does some things, and resolved
>not to debug it or use it until I have hardware that needs it.  Right
>now it supports less of my hardware than my version of the wd/wdc
>driver.  (It can't read a cheap cdrom which may have the wrong jumper
>settings.  The wd driver couldn't probe this cdrom but was easy to fix.)

Somehow, this reminds me of the punchline in one of the scenes from
the Monty Python influenced movie "Eric the Viking".  Those who
have seen it will probably smile when I say: "Now all the ones with
beards are in the same side of the boat".

Bruce, the resons you cite, are not arguments to keep the wd driver
around for a release which will not happen for another 12 months,
it is an argument for us to get you some more recent hardware.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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