Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-27 Thread Miles Bader
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's especially cool is that it hardwires the British (or Australian, > > in this case, I guess) spelling of `disc' as part of the UI > > The idea that devfs hardwires anything seems to be very popular. It is > also completely wrong. You can use th

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:03:39AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > What's especially cool is that it hardwires the British (or Australian, > > in this case, I guess) spelling of `disc' as part of the UI, though > > `disk' seems far more widespread in the rest of the kernel (consistency, > >

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:43:05PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But if it is reliable i would recommend using it. It makes lot of things > > much easier and probably is much more intuitive for beginners as well. > > (just thinking of /dev/discs/disc0/pa

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's especially cool is that it hardwires the British (or Australian, > in this case, I guess) spelling of `disc' as part of the UI, though > `disk' seems far more widespread in the rest of the kernel (consistency, > what's that?) In American Englis

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 00:43, Miles Bader wrote: > What's especially cool is that it hardwires the British (or Australian, > in this case, I guess) spelling of `disc' as part of the UI The idea that devfs hardwires anything seems to be very popular. It is also completely wrong. You can use the u

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-26 Thread Miles Bader
Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But if it is reliable i would recommend using it. It makes lot of things > much easier and probably is much more intuitive for beginners as well. > (just thinking of /dev/discs/disc0/part1 and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 ) What's especially cool is that it hardw

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-26 Thread Erich Schubert
BTW: i also remember having read that certain hardware doesn't work with ide-scsi, so enabling ide-scsi for all IDE hardware is a bad choice. (i think one of the boot-floppies people tried using ide-scsi by default, and got some problem reports) And additional drawback IMHO is the following: devfs