Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:35:39 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It isn't easy being "green"... Message-ID: <199604040205.LAA23103@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604032123.OAA15011@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 3, 96 02:23:55 pm
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > APM suspend/resume works on some machines in both -stable and -current. > However, folks are having a difficult time getting updated to -stable > and -current because of instabilities and other problems, so it's > difficult to know which machines work and which don't. I find the comment about upgrading totally bizarre. I've bootstrapped machines to both -stable and -current over the last couple of weeks, and never had anything that couldn't directly be tracked to a bad sup. > Finally, my .02 on the issue of the 'disable' spindown code is that we > shouldn't spend our time on it. It woudl be better to provide the > correct solution and fix the WD to handle timeouts better. The work > required to do turn-off green mode will mean constant maintenance and > will help but a few machines, while fixing the WD driver will work > reliably on all machines. *mumble* I still think that a rogues list would help... (gropes for justification) - ah, of course, for IDE CDroms! (*laugh*) > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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