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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!news.crd.ge.com!sunblossom!knight.vf.ge.com!news.ge.com!combs!steve From: steve@combs (Stephen F. Combs) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Question for FREEbsd folks Date: 9 Nov 1993 22:10:48 GMT Organization: GE Drive Systems, Salem, VA Lines: 42 Message-ID: <2bp4h8$oc0@alva.ge.com> References: <2bbk7h$t67@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <MYCROFT.93Nov8112055@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: CombsSF@Salem.GE.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: 3.29.5.200 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Charles Hannum (mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: : In article <2blkbh$kuc@itu1.sun.ac.za> abs@cs.sun.ac.za (Andre : Skarzynski) writes: : the first bug is the hard disk lite hang thing. : This has not yet been fixed in either system. : I beg to differ dear sir! With both NetBSD-0.8 and then with : NetBSD-0.9, I had this harddrive hanging problem. When I moved over : to _FreeBSD_, the problem went away and never came back. : Given that I have actually tried a FreeBSD kernel on two machines here : that exhibit the problem (one with IDE and one with SCSI), and that : numerous people have reported it in either system, I tend to wonder : what *else* you did to your system at the same time. : For starters, did you repartition your disks? I DO wish all of this Free/Net BSD bashing would go away! They are BOTH good systems! Each has something to offer. FYI, I had the disk lite hanging problem on 386bsd, NetBSD 0.8, AND NetBSD 0.9. It went away in FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA. I used the EXACT same partitioning on my SCSI disk with NetBSD 0.8/0.9 and FreeBSD. I'm NOT saying that FreeBSD is Better OR Worse than NetBSD, but for my needs it's been better so far! The ONLY kernal hacking (?) I've done is 1) fix the DEL/Backspace key in pccons.c so that it sends ^H (Backspace) and (just last night) add support for my DigiBoard Com/4 4 port sio board. -- ======================================================================= Stephen F. Combs GE Industry Sales & Services My Employer is in NO way GE Drive Systems Responsible or Liable for Network Services Any Opinions expressed by 1501 Roanoke Blvd. Myself. Salem, VA 24153 Internet E-Mail: CombsSF@Salem.GE.COM Novell via Internet: Combs-SF@Salem.GE.COM =======================================================================