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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!adler From: adler@netcom.com (Bruce Adler) Subject: Re: More on the DMA timing problem Message-ID: <adlerCBoGp7.2BG@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <jmonroyCBKrE9.76n@netcom.com> <jmonroyCBMzF6.3AG@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 03:07:54 GMT Lines: 51 Caution: this article contains excessive amounts of sarcasm and flame bait. Humor impaired people should stop reading this article now. In article <jmonroyCBMzF6.3AG@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: >>> Enough already! Just post the code somewhere and someone with some >>> real programming experience will figure out what's wrong with your >>> code. > POINT #1. You don't have my coe. Can you say chimera? I knew you could. >>> I find it very hard to believe that you've discovered some >>> sort of previously unknown hardware flaw that causes your driver >>> to fail on several different motherboard, controller and drive >>> combinations. > POINT #2. I don't beleive you have any knowledge that is > useful to me. I agree that would be like casting pearls before swine. > Namely, if there does exist a > problem with the DMA the mfgr of any devices > associated would most assuredly want to keep this > private. You might consider this if you own your > own business, like me. Don't tell anyone that I told you this but you're right! There's a document that describes all the evil nasty bugs in the hardware. But only members of Skull and Bones are allowed to have this document. Since you've been secretly blacklisted I can't show it to you. But on page 666 of this document there's a discription of how to work around a DMA timing problem on tape drives. If I say anymore the Brotherhood will get me. >>> Your prior so-called newsletters have already >>> convinced me (and probably many others) that you probably lack the >>> experience, ability, and knowledge to design and implement even the >>> most simple Unix device driver. > My newletter and knowledge only reflex your own ignorance. > This is evidenced by your own comments. So, what's your point? That I could never put together a newsletter like the one you write? I won't argue with that. > I don't care how long you think you been in this business, > (computers, etc.) this does not entitle you to any special > moronic additudes. I've been in this business so long I've reached my own sardonic altitude. > ... > The relevant importance of you -and any of the so-called > group you contend to be working in- is most assuredly > the best evidence of pathetic reasoning that abound. What's your point? It's pathetic that you can't communicate in a reasoned manner.