Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:02:03 -0500 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= <askbill@conducive.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Wiki for discussing P35/IHC9(R)/SATA issues set up Message-ID: <4731EF8B.3010309@conducive.net> In-Reply-To: <4731E77F.8070600@gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0711051555550.45185@thor.farley.org> <20071106153509.GB91218@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <47308E19.70507@samsco.org> <47315094.6080405@yandex.ru> <47315158.5090304@gmail.com> <4731A755.7060701@yandex.ru> <4731AEE8.70606@gmail.com> <4731AFA5.9090104@gmail.com> <20071107160212.GA31717@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4731E269.6000701@gmail.com> <20071107161434.GA32044@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4731E77F.8070600@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >> Although I am curious to know what happens if you take that SATA >> ATAPI drive and replace it with another SATA ATAPI drive of a >> different brand, such as Plextor or Pioneer. Most of the ATAPI >> errors I've seen have been caused by ATAPI devices which simply >> don't implement specific ATAPI commands. FreeBSD is fairly verbose >> about reporting such. > > Sadly that involves $50 or so I don't have (it was my lucky day when I > found $1 under the recylcing containers this morning)... Puhleez! .. /dev/null the poverty reports. Tedious coming from one of Merica's wealthier counties. D'you have the *slightest* idea what limited resources *most* folks here have to work with? Think Eastern Europe. Asia. 66% tax rates in Canada or Danmark. Families to feed, and s**t day-jobs. And use that PATA connection and a salvaged CDR - or borrowed USB one - if you need to burn a CD in such a hurry. > in the > situation your thinking of does the timeout just simplely lock the > drive up (actually not lock it but effectivally so).... for example: > > mount /dev/acd0 /mnt > > will complete freeze mount up (luckly not everything else some other > nameless OS) to the point that ^C, ^Z, kill (w/ and wo/ -9) do > absulutly nothing to get mount to exit > Interesting way to mount an optical device. What happens with: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom ?? Bill
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