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From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD and IDE drives
Message-ID: <1992Sep23.190549.1@vax.sonoma.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 92 03:05:49 GMT
References: <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
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In article <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 


I am using a Western Digital IDE 85MB hard disk on my BSD386 and it 
works great!


What I want to know is if a floppy controller based tape backup 
system such as the Colorado DJ-10 will work 


Anyone know this?

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