Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:21:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: Brett Glass <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.92.960331121549.214A-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <9602298281.AA828133263@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Brett Glass wrote: > > Turn the green mode crap off! It's utterly unacceptable for pretty > > much any UNIX system you can name (including Linux) to have one of its > > drives suddently decide to take a vacation. This thing must have some > > BIOS option for disabling it. > > Unfortunately, the BIOS has no such option. I called Zeos, and they say > that the OS's IDE driver should turn power management off if it does not > want it on. This certainly seems like a good idea for any UNIX system. Well this sounds silly. A lame excuse of your hardware vendor. Figure out, only because one hardware vendor decides, that this has to be done by the OS, not by BIOS or jumper setting, all OS vendors or SCSI controller vendors have to rewrite their drivers or firmware to turn off the green feature in case of trouble ?! - -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMV5cjPMLpmkD/U+FAQHHFAQAn2myjA7Ti6uVGXbHHq2QliBp+NjhvTWy Du0bJ1rfNDM0Bnh++yOjc2nZHxgRJQuwDeezrssR6iajcUS8QZsYfplEX8kvm1eX hycDnk08EpgJmshQa9wYr2nYH4BKIVwuz1Zx4akh4xTokQUw9uqC/HKbszTUaW5X xZ0qAzBEik8= =e7E0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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