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From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in (R Bhiksha Raj)
Subject: RE: Stable *BSD for Intel
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 11:38:34 GMT
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>2) In my experience, NetBSD 0.9 is *not* stable on machines with two
>   IDE drives, because of bugs in the wd.c driver.  I did not
>   experience these problems with either 386bsd 0.1 or NetBSD 0.8.
>   It may well be quite stable on non-IDE systems.


I've been beating hell out of my NetBSD-0.9 box with two IDE drives (Seagate),
for the better part of 6 months now.
I've also been beating hell out of my Sparc Station I.
For the record, the SSI has crashed far more times than my NetBSD box has
(about half a doz times in 6 months, only 2 unexplained).
Neither of them has lost a file ever :-)

Just my 2 cents...

bhiksha