Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:21:48 +0100 (BST) From: Julian <julian@ivision.co.uk> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hans@artcom.de, julian@ivision.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB Message-ID: <E0ybnH2-00027U-00@stingray.ivision.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199805191407.QAA02408@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at May 19, 98 04:07:52 pm
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> > Erhm, this is not in the 2.2-stable charter folks, the patches that > should go into 2.2-stable should only be bugfixes etc, the next thing > is that somebody wants the SMP code into 2.2-stable... > There has to be a line drawn somewhere.... Err, it isn't worth arguing the point, but this _is_ a bug as far as I am concerned. I can't specify the CHS setup I need to use this drive, I get errors with this drive attatched. I cannot format the drive correctly, I cannot use the drive correctly. Why not? Because LBA is broken on 2.2. I'd call that a bug. I appreciate, and approve of FreeBSD's attitude to implementing things slowly, and more cautiously as compared to Linux, but sometimes you seem over cautious to me. I now have a Hans Huebner's patch, and will be applying this sometime soon, so to an extent I am not fussed. I just don't entirely agree with where the line has been drawn in this case. Julian Unix Admin, Internet Vision To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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