Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-07-05 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Robert Raschke wrote: Not sure when Mr. Adams wrote this, but I think it was mid-90's. First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII -- and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a televis

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-07-05 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Robert Raschke wrote: Apparently, there's now "features" made specifically for the xx-small screen. Does anyone on this list actually watch stuff on those dinky screens? My eyes (and maybe imagination) are not good enough to enjoy that. If your personal token happens to have a screen, then you

[9fans] via vt8237

2008-07-05 Thread erik quanstrom
i think the posted patch might not be appropriate for controllers not having the via controllers' problem as it is quite quick to reset the controller if a command takes a long time. with a properly functioning controller, it is generally a bad idea to do a reset with a command in flight. i haven

Re: [9fans] venti survery results

2008-07-05 Thread Richard Miller
> is this one of the via chipsets that may also be driven as ahci? > > ahci should show up with class/subclass/ccrp as 01.06.01. as in: > x.y.z:disk 01.06.01 vid/did 11 0:x 16 1:x 16 2:x 16 3:x 16 4:x 16 > 5:y != 0 1024 (or bigger) Depending on whether I select SATA mode = RAID or IDE