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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: Possible (re)convert from Linux - specific questions Date: 8 Sep 1995 20:33:24 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 39 Message-ID: <42q9ak$9ce@helena.MT.net> References: <42q3ua$f1t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <42q3ua$f1t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, Aaron Bilger <bilgerar@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wrote: >1) What is the status of Mitsumi proprietary CDROM support? The same as it was in 2.0, which is the same as it was in 1.1.5. >2) How about the status of FAT write capability? When I started using >BSD 1.5, it had FAT read and write capability. Soon, messages came out >mentioning corruption using the write capability, and stating that >only read should be used on FAT. By 2.0, this was claimed to be fixed. I don't remember it ever being claimed to be fixed. >Of course, soon after 2.0 came out, again issues arose about corruption >on writing to FAT, so write support was removed. I have not seen this >made an issue either way since. Is FAT file-system supported reliably >for both reads and writes now? Nope. >3) Is there any support, even experimental or read-only, for HPFS >or NTFS? None that I'm aware of. >4) Is there any support, even experimental, for striping file-systems >across multiple physical drives? Yep, but the author of the drivers has not released their code yet. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.