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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!sun4nl!cwi.nl!news.cwi.nl!avg From: avg@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink) Subject: Re: Does 2.1R support 4x ATAPIs? Message-ID: <avg.839413150@news.cwi.nl> Sender: news@cwi.nl (The Daily Dross) Nntp-Posting-Host: mijt.cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam References: <4tp20n$ao9@maui.cc.odu.edu> <SCOTT.96Aug2131630@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <avg.839238744@news.cwi.nl> <SCOTT.96Aug6125416@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:19:10 GMT Lines: 36 scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell) writes: >In article <avg.839238744@news.cwi.nl> I <avg@cwi.nl> write: >> 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. This should have been mentioned at the site where I punched in my credit card number to order the CD! It certainly wasn't. The impression made there was one of a reasonably mature system. Maybe honest advertising always implies bad advertising. I hope not. >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. Maybe I was exaggerating; but I don't think that a standard IDE CDROM is `a piece of brain-damaged hardware'. The CDROM I was talking about simply _doesn't contain any_ driver for an IDE CDROM as master on the second channel (or whatever). -- Annius V. Groenink .......................................... avg@cwi.nl Room M233, CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam phone +31 20 592 40 77 .. and ZFC/home P.O.Box 15813, 1001 NH Amsterdam phone +31 20 4 208 248 .. zfc@zfc.nl .........................................................