From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 21 07:10:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA14838 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA14832; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:10:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail (PMDF V5.0-6 #16313) id <01ILI5L827C68WVYJT@mail>; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:51:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id PAA27761; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:49:23 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:49:22 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... In-reply-to: from Dermot McNally To: Dermot McNally Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , dg@root.com Message-id: <19970721154922.61073@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75e Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <21008.869326490@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 02:35:09PM +0200, Dermot McNally wrote: > > On 19-Jul-97 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >It's far more common in the 8 bit cards, yes. I would, however, > >hypothesize that the 16 bit cards have now (or will very shortly) > >outnumber the legacy equipment. I do know that I've certainly > >received a considerable amount of negative feedback over the choice of > >5 ("5?! Who uses that anymore? 10! The default value should be 280/5 was one of the most common setting I was using in the past for the WD8003 8 bit cards. I adopted this setting also for those 16 bit cards (WD8013) the latter requiring to be programmed for this value pair. Another common setting was 300/10 for the 16 bit cards which is a jumper selectable option on the WD8013 (phased out) and SMC Ultra 8216 cheapo cards of these days. I vote for keeping 280/5 because this doesn't rule out 8 bit cards. > >10! What are you guys thinking?!") :-) > > > >How does the "user base" feel about this? > > 10, every time. Or 11 if you really want to, but not 5 and > certainly not 3, for the very good reasons already pointed out. I > would guess that anyone who still uses an 8-bit network card has been > long enough at this game to know how to tweak the default value. > > Dermot > > ---------------------------------- > Dermot McNally, Motorola EMEA CCS, Muenchen > dermot@sissdev.sps.mot.com, phone +49-89-92103 648 > ---------------------------------- -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de