From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 6 09:19:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01333 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA01326 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0z4Skc-0000SK-00; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:18:50 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA15730; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:19:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808061619.KAA15730@harmony.village.org> To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly Cc: Vince Vielhaber , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 22:50:29 MDT." <35C93615.D83647EC@softweyr.com> References: <35C93615.D83647EC@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 10:19:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <35C93615.D83647EC@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: : If we could afford to pay a team of 15 engineers for a month to figure : out how to talk to the controller on a SLAVE disk, we probably still : wouldn't, because we could also pay them to improve something on a : correctly configured system. I really don't under stand this whole thread. I've been running an ATAPI cdrom wired to slave on its own IDE channel w/o any problems. this is on a 2.2.6 plus a little system. I've also been running an ATAPI tape drive (thanks Soren) on its own IDE channel wired as slave with only the wst driver problems to deal with. This is on my -current system since about october or so. I don't see why it would be any different for a disk drive. I don't actually have any IDE disks laying around, or I'd try it myself.. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message