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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Install problem: cmd/data port full
Date: 6 Mar 1994 23:32:31 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <MYCROFT.94Mar6144945@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Charles Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>In article <2lb83u$5u0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu
>(Nate Williams) writes:
>
>   Based on comments Julian has made, the code in FreeBSD 1.1 is alot
>   newer than any publically available SCSI code in NetBSD (either 0.9
>   or -current)
>
>   Stick with FreeBSD.
>

> Certainly the `new' SCSI
>code I got from Julian (the same code which went into FreeBSD) was
>*quite* buggy. 

Explain *certainly*?  There are lots of folks who are using it w/out problems
with FreeBSD, and it certainly works on the newer hardware much better than
the code in any public code in NetBSD.

>no real impetus for us to switch to the other code, as the known bugs
>in the current code have been fixed.

Hmm, the original author has problems yet that's not a known bug?

I don't get it?  In your world you're always right and never wrong, and
anyone that disagrees with you is the bad guy with the wrong motives.

Too bad real life ain't that way, huh?



Nate
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