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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:50:37 +1030
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The 'dave rivers' momorial panic. 
Message-ID:  <199801310620.QAA00768@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:45:17 -0800." <34D23BDD.3F54BC7E@whistle.com> 

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> turns out it was a hardware problem..
> some IDE chipsets an ddrives were incapable of running on 
> a ribbon cable over about 40cm (16") long.

This *is* the specified limit for the ATA bus, funnily enough.

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