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From: avg@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
Subject: Re: Does 2.1R support 4x ATAPIs?
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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:52:24 GMT
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scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell) writes:

>> Now, I remember the 2.1 snapshots, even just 2 weeks before the release,
>> didn't work well with 4x speed drives.  But I think I had 2.1R working with
>> a 4x-speed Mitsumi drive on another machine a while back.

>My Creative 4x works most of the time.  I suspect it's the cruftiness
>of the drive firmware rather than how fast it goes that determines
>whether it will work or not.  Maybe this Hitachi is just a little bit
>crappier than the Mitsumi?

Nah, no offense, but it's not that; BSD 2.1 is just a little bit
crappier than Linux!  The supplied kernels screw up completely with
CDROMs.  Very bad advertising!

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