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From: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does 2.1R support 4x ATAPIs?
Date: 06 Aug 1996 11:54:16 GMT
Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
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In-reply-to: avg@cwi.nl's message of Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:52:24 GMT
In article <avg.839238744@news.cwi.nl> avg@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink) writes:
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
> From: avg@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:52:24 GMT
>
> scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell) writes:
>
> >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!
>
Hello? IIRC, the last CD that I recieved clearly stated that the
driver was *alpha quality*, as in "use at your own risk". Perhaps you
meant to say "Honest advertising"? Happily though it works for me and
plenty of other people.
Slagging off the whole OS on the basis of one flaky driver is a little
extreme don't you think? FreeBSD is produced by volunteers who don't
have time to support every piece of brain-damaged hardware that
exists out there.
Share and Enjoy.
Scott
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