Re: to get help or not to get help

[eric <eric-list-openbsd-misc@catastrophe.net>]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 23:57:00 +0200, Henning Brauer proclaimed...

> what a clever idea to write to a mailing list asking for help and not 
> accepting the replies.

I do accept the replies; I've had enough idiotic flames from people
however, and you're bright enough to get in touch with anyway. :)

Before that, you mailed so graciously wrote....

> I am a bit disappointed that you even consider wru=iting this mail
> before trying a 3.6 snapshot.  heck, what is snapshots now ist
> that --->.<--- close to what will be 3.6-release.

I actually did try a snapshot cd36.iso (built 20040824) and it
failed with the message "No disks found." Pretty much I've found
that *nothing* supports the controller in this x306 without any
major issues; not even the "we're in bed with IBM" linux vendors.

So to summarize, the SATA controller in the x306 isn't supported by
3.5-STABLE or 3.6-CURRENT as of 20040824. If you'd like, I can try
again and post a dmesg.

Thanks - and sorry about the rejection.

- Eric