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From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
Subject: 386BSD and IDE drives
Message-ID: <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 22:46:36 GMT
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This may be a dumb question or may have been asked before, still. Can
386BSD run on a system with IDE hard drives? I've been told (by a
dealer) that Unix in general doesn't work properly with IDE, but he
was unable actually to tell me why.

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.