2006

Changes to the FreeBSD SCSI drive to make it more like Solaris/Linux

I’ve been given a patch to test. It changes the SCSI driver so that it will be slightly more like Linux and Solaris. I’m just documenting the patch process here so we can see what I’m doing, in case something goes wrong. This patch will allow us to open the tape drive, even if there is no tape, and keep querying until a tape arrives. [root@dfc:/usr/src/sys/cam/scsi] # perl -pi -e “s:^M::g” ~dan/scsi_sa.c.diffs [root@dfc:/usr/src/sys/cam/scsi] […]

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A ShmooCon I will go

I’m heading out to ShmooCon 2006. I’m arriving in Washington DC on Wednesday the 11th, and departing on Sunday the 12th. I’m arriving early in case the weather closes in. Washington doesn’t cope with snow well. What they call a blizzard would shutdown the city for two days. In Ottawa, the same thing doesn’t affect your commute to work. For those that don’t know it, and I’m sorry to say I didn’t until

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