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<nexussfan>gnucode: is that intentional?
<nexussfan>jab: I'd prefer not
<Arsen>nexussfan: that is intentional
<Arsen>they consider invariant sections nonfree
<nexussfan>oh
<nexussfan>> Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
<gnucode> https://hurdos.com/wiki/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.html -> WIP rumpdisk image.
<damo22>it should support IDE PATA
<damo22>why do you keep saying it doesnt
<damo22>it supports it but if theres a bug that stops it from working, it needs to be fixed
<jab>damo22 that wiki page is outdated. I haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
<jab>actually the latest rumpdisk page is better: https://hurd.ion.nu/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.html
<gnucode>I'll make this the first sentence of that page in my next batch of updates: The Hurd supports modern SATA devices including SSDs with RumpDisk, and by default, the amd64 Hurd uses Rumpdisk. We.
<sam_>"the amd64 Debian Hurd" :)
<sam_>we default to rumpdisk entirely for gentoo so far
<damo22>IDE PATA predates SATA, but they are all actually IDE anyway
<jab>yeah, Samuel was telling me that.
<damo22>so SATA is not modern, and SATA SSDs are almost obsolete now
<gnucode>The hurd supports modern sata devices including -> The hurd supports sata devices including ...
<gnucode>good night all.
<jab>sneek: later nexussfan wanna port OpenNTPd to the hurd ? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2026-04/msg00076.html
<jab>sneek: later tell nexussfan wanna port OpenNTPd to the Hurd ? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2026-04/msg00076.html
<sneek>Will do.