Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:33:15 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver Message-ID: <3F6FE92B.5040906@sitetronics.com> In-Reply-To: <20030922205234.GB75844@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <410-220039122131250707@M2W063.mail2web.com> <20030922132556.GC66910@llama.fishballoon.org> <3F6F0BB0.9020506@sitetronics.com> <20030922205234.GB75844@llama.fishballoon.org>
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Scott Mitchell wrote: >This is fine - just an informational message rather than anything >actually wrong. > > Out of curiosity, what does that indicate (or where can I find comments in the source)? >Indeed... the docs should probably just list the classes of device that >should work, rather than specific instances. I did once start updating >the umass(4) manpage to say this, but got discouraged by a flurry of >list messages complaining that XYZ device didn't work - didn't feel up >to documenting the intricacies of the quirking mechanism. Now that this >is less of a problem, I should probably pick that up again. > >Anyway, glad you got it working. > > Yes, I also got an email from the product manager of the SimpleDrive asking me what sort of documentation I was looking for. This seems like an open-source friendly company; just so that we can keep this in mind in case there are portable storage device/hard drive issues in the future. It looks like Firewire is also taken care of, but you never know what else there might be in the future. --Devon
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