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Date:      Thu, 13 May 1999 13:10:55 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@yes.no>
Cc:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive 
Message-ID:  <67376.926593855@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "12 May 1999 16:10:11 %2B0200." <xzpk8ues7jw.fsf@des.follo.net> 

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On 12 May 1999 16:10:11 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> OBTW, the following comment in LINT is a little weird:
> 
> # You only need one "controller ata0" for it to find all
> # PCI devices on modern machines.

*chuckle*

My misreading of that comment led me to remove all my atadisk* devices,
resulting in a "can't mount root" panic on reboot. :-)

I admit, I came up with a particularly stupid interpretation, but it's
poorly worded nonetheless.

Later,
Sheldon.


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