Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 17:13:12 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.mt.net> Cc: se@mi.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser), CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf BOOTFLP Message-ID: <199503310113.RAA00418@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 95 18:04:10 MST." <199503310104.SAA08971@trout.sri.MT.net>
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>> 1) The SNAP's GENERIC kernels should be built with all SCSI >> performance options enabled, IMHO. > >Again, I disagree, but it's not for me to decide. It's easier to add >something to the kernel config file to get better performance than it is >to remove something which might cause problems. Nearly all modern disk drives support synchronous negotiation (most support synchronous mode as well). Even some old and moldy async tape drives I have still do synchronous negotiation correctly. If some model of a Toshiba drive gets this wrong, then we'll document it in the release notes and move on. The solution it not to cripple the system, but to document the problem and provide a work around via a userconfig mechanism. I feel pretty strongly about this. Now if there isn't any work around for a problem, well then that's the time to consider crippling the system. -DG
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