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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.x RELEASE: Adaptec 2742AT vs. Archive Viper problems?
Date: 21 Jun 1995 10:57:57 +0200
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Mike Borowiec <mikebo@tellabs.com> wrote:
Sorry, i cannot answer your question regarding the Viper 150 (other
than my Viper 150 always worked flawlessly with either an AHA-1540A as
well as the EISA Bt-742A), but i can answer this:
>PS> I've read the "is a known rogue" messages a thousand times on boot
> up but never understood why is was considered a "rogue". Mine has
> always worked flawlessly... Anyone?
The ``known rogue'' means it's in the ``rogue's gallery''. :) It's a
tape known to require some tweaking in order to work properly. Hence
the `known rogue's are quite better than any potentially `unknown
rogue' (since they are already detected and handled by the st driver).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)