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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:58:59 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! 
Message-ID:  <199912110158.RAA04944@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:47:22 %2B0100." <v04220809b47724ea06b3@[195.238.25.55]> 

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> At 10:32 PM +0100 1999/12/10, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> >  Well, the only precedent we have is CAM/SCSI, and it was done the
> >  same way.
> 
> 	Given some of the things I've heard about the CAM/SCSI debacle, 
> I'm not sure that this is a good example to be trotting out right 
> now.  Personally, I don't think that this is an experience we'd want 
> to be repeating -- especially not with something related to disk 
> devices.

The same mentality that made the CAM cutover a "debacle" is making the 
ata cutover a "debacle".  

Fortunately, the CAM folks persisted despite the criticism, and I'm glad 
to see that Soren is taking the same stance.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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