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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI and NetBSD Problems
Date: 16 Sep 1994 00:47:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <359iq9$mvq@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
Volker A. Brandt  <volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>To get around this problem, a magical thing called "bounce buffers"
>must be mangled into the kernel.  FreeBSD already has this.  The
>NetBSD gurus also plan on doing this, but unfortunately for us poor
>Joe Users, they want to Do It Right(tm).  This means that it will be

Just for those who might misinterpret this - I think we Did It Right also.
If you don't believe me, ask John Dyson for the details
(dyson@freefall.cdrom.com).

					Jordan