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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!destroyer!ubc-cs!news.UVic.CA!spang.Camosun.BC.CA!dbarker From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) Subject: Re: 386BSD and IDE drives Message-ID: <1992Sep23.223833.2189@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada References: <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <19posaINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 22:38:33 GMT Lines: 19 In article <19posaINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: >In article <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes: >> 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. > >Go and buy your hardware from a different dealer in the future. Oh I've never *bought* anything from this dealer..... >I don't mind people admitting they don't know a thing about Unix, but that's no >reasoon for telliung lies. Well I think this may have been a mistake rather than a deliberate falsehood. The lie was probably to tell me they knew all about Unix. I have yet to meet a PC dealer who knows that much about it. Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.