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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:39:06 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure
Message-ID:  <199611250839.JAA16028@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <306.848870190@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 24, 96 10:16:30 pm"

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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 2. Even if we did, I'd need a very dedicated tester with an NCR 
> controller to help me test it out on the only HW we know of that
> fails.

Hmm, you want me trashing my disk? ;-)

I don't think that's as much of a problem.

> 3. The unspecified German HeldenProgrammer that implemented the DD
> mode clearly didn't bother with data-hiding, since he's fiddling
> the internal libdisk variables in sysinstall rather than calling
> Set_Bios_Geom() and a fitting "punishment" could be to "award" him
> the task of making it work correctly :-)

I really wonder who you might be referring to here. *grin*

Well, if i knew better by the time i wrote that, i had done it...  But
i even had to write a man page for libdisk first, just to understand
its concepts.  So no surprise if i got something wrong.  Unlike you, i
don't appreciate hints delivered on bricks through windows, i also
appreciate plain email telling me TRT. :-))

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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