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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!know!mips2!news.bbn.com!usc!nic.csu.net!vax.sonoma.edu!levinson 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> Organization: Sonoma State University Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: vax.sonoma.edu 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? -- Eric Levinson rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP) levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax levinson@zippy.sonoma.edu | Sun System Eric Levi | Pc Link, America Online JWPP04A | Prodigy Department of Computer Science Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way at (415) 883-0696 3/12/24 bps Press <ENTER> a few times after connect