From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 7 17:02:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8F516A418 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:02:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from conducive.net (conducive.org [203.194.153.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6591C13C49D for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:02:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from cm218-253-81-177.hkcable.com.hk ([218.253.81.177]:63705 helo=pb.local) by conducive.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IpoI0-000G8h-1A for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:02:04 +0000 Message-ID: <4731EF8B.3010309@conducive.net> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:02:03 -0500 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20071106153509.GB91218@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <47308E19.70507@samsco.org> <47315094.6080405@yandex.ru> <47315158.5090304@gmail.com> <4731A755.7060701@yandex.ru> <4731AEE8.70606@gmail.com> <4731AFA5.9090104@gmail.com> <20071107160212.GA31717@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4731E269.6000701@gmail.com> <20071107161434.GA32044@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4731E77F.8070600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4731E77F.8070600@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Wiki for discussing P35/IHC9(R)/SATA issues set up X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:02:15 -0000 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >> Although I am curious to know what happens if you take that SATA >> ATAPI drive and replace it with another SATA ATAPI drive of a >> different brand, such as Plextor or Pioneer. Most of the ATAPI >> errors I've seen have been caused by ATAPI devices which simply >> don't implement specific ATAPI commands. FreeBSD is fairly verbose >> about reporting such. > > Sadly that involves $50 or so I don't have (it was my lucky day when I > found $1 under the recylcing containers this morning)... Puhleez! .. /dev/null the poverty reports. Tedious coming from one of Merica's wealthier counties. D'you have the *slightest* idea what limited resources *most* folks here have to work with? Think Eastern Europe. Asia. 66% tax rates in Canada or Danmark. Families to feed, and s**t day-jobs. And use that PATA connection and a salvaged CDR - or borrowed USB one - if you need to burn a CD in such a hurry. > in the > situation your thinking of does the timeout just simplely lock the > drive up (actually not lock it but effectivally so).... for example: > > mount /dev/acd0 /mnt > > will complete freeze mount up (luckly not everything else some other > nameless OS) to the point that ^C, ^Z, kill (w/ and wo/ -9) do > absulutly nothing to get mount to exit > Interesting way to mount an optical device. What happens with: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom ?? Bill