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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.maz.net!news.omnilink.net!news.toplink.de!toplink1.toplink.net!ck From: ck@news.toplink.de (Christian Kratzer) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 3 Jan 1996 09:34:51 GMT Organization: TopLink GbR, Germany, Internet Services Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4cdijr$hjg@toplink1.toplink.net> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4bthbq$mfp@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4c8o00$p5e@news1.halcyon.com> <4c9op2$k9o@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4ca3gu$4nc@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: toplink1.toplink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31663 alt.os.linux:6756 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11257 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1687 Tim Smith (tzs@coho.halcyon.com) wrote: : 2. There is hardware that is *not* weird at all the FreeBSD is behind in : support for. IDE CD-ROM, for example. Even Warp and NT, the usual champions : for being late to support hardware, have no trouble with my Toshiba IDE : CD-ROM, for example, but FreeBSD 2.1 won't see it during install. I haven't : peeked into the box yet to see if I've got master/slave set to the way : FreeBSD wants it to be, but their are two possibilities: : (a). I've got it set wrong. If so, this is a deficiency in FreeBSD CD-ROM : support, because NT, Warp, DOS, Linux, and Windows 95 all have no trouble : with it set the way it is. : (b). I've got it set right. If so, something's wrong with FreeBSD. I think a very large portion of the FreeBSD and NetBSD user community would considre an IDE CDROM (and also other ide devices) a "wierd device" they would not touch with 5 foot isolated pole ;-> This could be an indicication that FreeBSD is used far more in professional scsi only environments and far less in a home/garage environments. Greetings Christian -- TopLink GbR, Internet Services info@toplink.net Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7452 87174 Fax: +49 7452 87175 FreeBSD spoken here!