Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 07:13:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver? Message-ID: <36DDB40D.BC694111@newsguy.com> References: <199903031826.KAA98780@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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David Wolfskill wrote: > > >Irrespective of all the valid reasons to allow for wiring (but not > >mandate), static drive numbering is not BIOS compatible (thus, not > >DOS compatible). This violates POLA. > > I'm at least as much against POLA violations as anyone... but the real > POLA violation I see is the apparent dependence on the BIOS, since it is > "controlled" by a process external to the UNIX environment. It is not a matter of dependence (which, obviously, does not exist). Is a matter of: 1) Doing the same as "everyone else" (meaning, here, the most common background for newbies; if one is not a newbie, POLA doesn't comes into play for this particular issue). 2) Having the OS see disks in the same way/ordering as the program that boot it does, *unless explicitly instructed otherwise*. > "DOS compatability" is not one of my concerns; I have difficulty imagining > a universe in which it would become one. Indeed, if someone were to > claim "DOS compatibility" for something, I would have no way of knowing > what that was supposed to imply, since I'm nearly completely unfamiliar > with DOS. (The few times I've tried to use it, I would get different > results from the same actions on my part, so I gave up.) :-) > And yes, I realize that neither my experiences nor perspective may be > representative of anyone else. Which, unfortunately, plays a part in POLA. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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