Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 10:07:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, gaylord@gaylord.async.vt.edu Subject: Re: has this been fixed? Message-ID: <199811041807.KAA00878@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 09:59:25 PST." <199811041759.JAA18450@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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> >From: Clark Gaylord <gaylord@gaylord.async.vt.edu> > >Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:29:28 -0500 (EST) > > >> Just out of curiousity, how did the threshold for "a bit too long" get > >> determined? Is this defined in the IDE standard? Did someone conduct > > >IDE standard? You are funny. Let me guess, that's published on > >www.snakeoil.com, right? > > Ummm.... I didn't ask the original question, but it's not at all clear > to me why it should be "funny." > > Given that someone evidently thinks it is, I gether from context that > the phrase "IDE standard" is a reference to a nonentity? Is there an > expectation that anyone who might ever want to use a FreeBSD system > should know this? There is, indeed, no "IDE standard". There are, instead, a set of ATA standards, (1 through 4) which attempt to define the ATA interface. Unfortunately, these aren't the best of standards, and it seems that vendors take perverse delight in ignoring parts of them that don't suit their agendas. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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