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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
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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.