Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 12:16:18 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, peter@taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <199512051216.MAA28370@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v01510100ace86cf4dcdf@[194.32.164.2]> from "Bob Bishop" at Dec 4, 95 09:18:52 am
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Bob Bishop stands accused of saying: > >80 bytes to a card, IIRC. > > I can see you're too young to have dropped a big deck! Try allocating a > couple of bytes per card for a sequence number :-) Ack, all the old farts pop out again! (and the knurrs from der voodverk came) It would appear that we actually have low-density and high-density cards; can we support both, or do we need seperate boot-decks? (FWIW the only card-sorting hardware I've ever met used a seperate set of printed sequence marks on the card. I presume that if you dropped the deck after cutting it but before getting the sequence codes printed on it that it would be a good day to go home early... Unfortunately I can't verify this as all that's left of the sorter is now my desk at home. Ah for the days when computers had woodwork 8) > Bob Bishop (01734) 774017 international code +44 1734 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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