Subject: Re: ATA/ATAPI kernel redesign
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/26/2002 08:08:23
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:36:13PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

 > > 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.

In the case of laptops like Bill is talking about, there are no jumpers
to set m/s on the CD-ROM drive, and the CD-ROM comes shipped as "slave"
from the factory.

-- 
        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>