kern/96157: Subtle incompatability of FreeBSD and LITE-ON SOHW-1673s drive

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <20101028100643.GC393 at lonesome.com>, you wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 04:25:21PM +0300, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>> I am sorry but I don't think that we can realistically expect developers
>> to go through such hoops to just reach a PR submitter. Thus by closing
>> the PR I will also save time of the next person trying to contact the
>> submitter.
>
>I'm going to have to side with Jaakko on this one.  Due to the sheer
>number of PRs that we receive, we simply can't take tens of minutes, or
>hours, on all of them.  (For the past several years we have only been
>able to keep the total number of PRs from rising too much.)  jh@ and others
>have been doing great work to try to prune the stale ones, so that we can
>more easily see the others.
>
>I sympathise with the OP about having to have all the anti-spam measures
>in place; I've had my email address for over 10 years now and have tried
>various combinations of razor wire, boiling oil, and so forth.  But the
>reality is that if we're getting 60+ PRs/day, not every one is going to
>get the time it deserves.


Actually, looking back at the mailing list archives, it appears to me that
perhaps Jaakko sent me an e-mail saying "Is this still a problem for you?"
and then (my bad) I failed to respond in a timely manner.

In short, it appears ot me that there was not any problem with e-mail
at all... just a slight mixup here.

Anyway, as regards ot the LITE-ON drive and the problems I had with it,
I really can't easily test that anymore, becaes that drive was pulled
from one of my systems when it proved to be essentially FreeBSD-incompatible.
And alas, I really don;t have time to reinstall that anytime in the next
30 days for testing.  So in short, it is OK by me if the PR gets closed.