Yes, you're right - well thunked. Chilean wine is good for reducing brain function, obviously.

As for the controller - not convinced; the AT command set for the on-disk controller should respond to commands to indicate the controller is present, and the state of attached disks (stopped, spinning up, at speed, deccellerating) can be reported seperately. The idea of "UNIX" is multi-processing, so if you have a kernel image already in the air, it doesn't have to wait for a disk to come up to speed before proceeding. I suppose what we're talking about here is the player application's startup time being dependent on the speed at which the disks become available (since its resources - MP3s - are on disk).

It still implies the designers of the kernel have not considered the kernel being loaded from a different media other than the root disk of the system. Yuck, chicken-and-egg. When will empeg-sorry-SonicBlue(Cambridge) take the HURD on board???

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