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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error Message-ID: <jmonroyCvvtwr.1oo@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <33j9hp$41l@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <jmonroyCvozLK.5q9@netcom.com> <CEB.94Sep8124638@netcom3.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 21:48:27 GMT Lines: 53 Ch. Buckley (ceb@netcom3.netcom.com) wrote: : In article <jmonroyCvsny4.GEp@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: : Bakul Shah (bakul@netcom.com) wrote: : : jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: : : It doesn't take much time to lookup the right reference : : material. I will admit that reading uPD765A material is not easy : : but you, as someone who claims to have written floppy drivers, : : should be intimately familiar with it. If you don't want to : : bother checking your information is correct, atleast say so : : clearly in your post. : : : I am grateful for your assistance. I beleive : your good work will help the person that needs : assistance. However, I don't have time for this : and I beleive you are on the right track. : I will continue to monitor the conversation : and make light comments, but I really don't have : time to fix this problem... as I beleive that : the FreeBSD driver should be rewritten (please no flames) : I prompted this discussion with a posting that I made because I : thought Jesus Monroy might be capable of and willing to work in that : spirit of cooperation, if given encouragement instead of simply flames : and abuse. What he has written above is about as clear an indication : of his complete unwillingness to do that as I've ever seen. : Concerning his capability, there's evidence to suspect it might exist, : but one without the other is useless. : I won't make such an overture again. Maybe now's the time to add him : to my kill file. : To make this as clear as I can. It is not that I am unwilling to help, it is just any major sort of assistance that I have offered goes unanswered. Many people complained that I could not, or would not produce work. When I did, and offered it, it went unanswered. In short, My FDC driver is still available. It needs a few steps added to have services that the other fdc drivers claim. My only claim is that my driver works - across many quasi-platforms of similar origin. XXX if you must add my name to your kill file, Make my day :-). -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________