Subject: Re: ATA/ATAPI kernel redesign
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/25/2002 15:36:13
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:21:34PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:56:26PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > >
> > > IIRC a big problem is detecting slave only configurations.
> >
> > These are illegal according to the specification.  Who gives a damn
> > if they work or not?
> 
> All the people who have them? Regardless of their legality, they happen.
> And they happen in cases where we can't do much about it.

Nonsense.  All it ever takes to avoid this situation is *one jumper*,
and usually not even that.