From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 8 16:19:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA23396 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:19:29 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA23388 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:19:27 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA17161; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:19:11 -0800 To: Wilko Bulte cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers list), vak@cronyx.msk.su Subject: Re: Using seagate driver with Future Domain 950: :-( In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Feb 95 20:30:10 +1636." <199502081930.UAA00740@yedi.iaf.nl> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 16:19:09 -0800 Message-ID: <17160.792289149@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > When connected to a Micropolis 1375 (140Mb) disk, I get the > following during boot / device probe: > > - card is recognised OK (BIOS on card is enabled BTW) > > something like: invalid phase CMD out (gets out of view very fast) > Well, at least now we can finally say that somebody tested it! :-) It's an unfortunate fact that a lot of stuff gets put into the tree (and sometimes it's by me!) on a hope-for-the-best basis. You haven't got any of the funky hardware that somebody has just send you a driver for, and nobody else you know does either, yet you've had a lot of requests for the thing and so you figure a halfway working something is better than nothing and into the tree goes. And then maybe even you hear it worked and everybody is happy and your gamble paid off. Hurrah! The day is saved. But that's only the beginning. Then you get an UPDATE to this driver and you think "Great, still don't have this hardware to test with but the author says it's better, so... *sigh*" Except maybe this time things break, and yet you still don't know who out there actually HAS one of these things, and so it's untested and doesn't get found out until 2 days before your release is due to ship! :-) Clearly, things can't work this way (or fail to) forever. Help! FreeBSD needs an *accountant*! ;-) Jordan