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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 20:15:43 -0700
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Nick Kralevich wrote:
] >you probably really meant to
] >say "saving me the agony of messing with an alpha-quality
] >IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive". The driver works perfectly if your
] >vendor didn't violate the ATAPI specification, one way or the
] >other, or if you don't have one of the buggy (3 out of 5 of all
] >available cards) IDE controllers.
]
] Are you saying that FreeBSD doesn't work on 3 out of 5 IDE CD-ROMS?
] Ouch! Or perhaps I've misunderstood you...
No. I'm saying that buying an IDE CDROM drive is the computer
age equivalent of playing "Russian Roulette", and if you blow
your machines brains out doing it (ie: it doesn't work), well,
then average human intelligence has gone up.
I can't tell you that any IDE CDROM drive not on the "we've used
this IDE CDROM drive and it works" lists will or won't work. I
can say "it will probably work", but if it doesn't, it probably
because the hardware threw the specification out the window to
make the drive $1.39 cheaper, and you foolishly bought it.
] Has FreeBSD fixed their broken DOS FS support yet?
What does "Has FreeBSD fixed..." mean? An official release?
No. If you resize a partition without choosing the correct
cluster size for the resized partition (ie: if you use FIPS),
and then mount the FS read/write instead of read-only, just
like with "mtools", you can have problems.
Has Linux fixed their broken mtools yet?
] Does FreeBSD have VFAT (Win 95) support yet?
Again... "Have..."? As in has their been an official release
containing it yet?
No.
Does Linux have VFAT32 support yet?
] >Again, your choice to buy the hardware.
]
] That's not much consolation to a user who happens to have
] a non-working (under FreeBSD) CD-ROM drive that they can
] get easially working under Linux.
"Your choice to buy the dead parrot."
"Is that any consoloation to a pet owner who happens to have
a non-working (under FreeBSD) parrot?"
"A dead parrot is a dead parrot, no matter how many times you
paint it to make it look like a live parrot."
] *sigh*
*sigh back*
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.