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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: two questions
Date: 7 Dec 1994 11:25:53 +0100
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie> wrote:

>   2. i also read the question in the last weeks but nobody answered - here is
>   it again: is anybody working on an EIDE support for FreeBSD ?
>
>Not that I know of.  Everyone I know of is using their EIDE machines
>in standard IDE mode, and it doesn't seem to bother them enough to do
>anything about it (so far).

Slight correction.  I remember Paul Richards thinking about EIDE in
the hackers' list.  I don't know if he's still tracking this.
-- 
cheers, J"org                             work:    joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
                                          private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de

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