From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 5 23: 2:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B9814FBB for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:02:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA90218; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 02:00:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 02:00:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Wes Peters , hackers@FreeBSD.org, Vince Vielhaber , Chris , bee@wipinfo.soft.net Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > > Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why > > should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured > > hardware? > > Since when has PC hardware followed the specs? Since it was made to work? The problem here is that this person, for some reason, is misconfiguring their system and expecting it to work as if it were configured properly. > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message