3-Jun-00 14:34 you wrote:
> From: "Khimenko Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: The list of outstanding reports that should be closed
> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 23:11:09 +0400 (MSD)
>> Someone can explain from WHERE this weird check come anyway ?
> That seems to be introduced by my incaution. The right
> implementation is in stage1. I'll fix the bug soon.
Ok. Check from stage1 works just fine here.
>> So LBA read/write functions are supported if and only if "DMA boundary
>> errors handled transparently" ??? What a strange logic! Who's bright mind
>> generated such a great check ?
> Thanks for your report, but I hate such a mordacity.
Oops. Sorry if I hurt your feelings. It was not my wish (ok, it was not wish
by iself to be exact - see below). In fact it was not even 100% modracity - I
really wondered why such problem can be unnoticed for so long: I've seen
quite a few reports where peoples said that GRUB's LBA check does not work
for them; some distributions (Mandrake and Caldera) used GRUB with check
disabled; there are even autoconf option to disable it (now it's grub-install
option if I recall correctly). It was kind of hard to believe that with all
this fuzz noone ever looked in interrupt list to verify if check is sane !
> Why don't you send a bug report mildly?
Ok. I've sent quite a few different bug reports to different mailing lists.
Usual reaction to mildly and polite bug report is total disregardion. You
can send 10 polite bug reports and still get no reaction at all. When you are
sending VERY abrasive and caustic bug report you getting SOME reaction for
sure. Since just answer "you are ill-manerred impudent bully" will be just
flame and will sank answering person down to my level he(she) usually answer
something about reported bug as well. That's my goal - usually I care much
more about fixing bugs then about keeping good name.
> Don't you know etiquette?
Yeah. I know about etiquette :-) I'm deliberately violate it (see above).
Sorry about this once more - looks like it was not needed this time (on
other side it was not pure mordacity as I've said before).
