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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!stl!robobar!ibmpcug!adrian From: adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD and IDE drives Message-ID: <Bv0x0q.9K9@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 23 Sep 92 09:00:25 GMT References: <1992Sep22.224636.13727@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 19 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. I hope he is wrong, otherwise the system I have been running for the last few weeks is in imminent danger of going kaput :) I have had no problems running with an IDE drive (Maxtor 200Meg on a 386SX, 8MB RAM, EGA card, 2S/1P/1G, 3com 3C503, Archive Tape Ctrl). Adrian -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Hall Connect Systems Manager adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk The IBM PC User Group Tel: +44 81 863 1191 Harrow, London, UK