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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!199.94.215.18!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news-relay.ncren.net!nntp-xfer.ncsu.edu!news From: exfjnzl@rbf.apfh.rqh (Ravi K. Swamy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:13:54 GMT Organization: Gunsmith Cats Lines: 25 Message-ID: <slrn5g135j.nml.exfjnzl@c01021-111poe.eos.ncsu.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <slrn5ekm26.5ml.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org> <slrn5feb63.93l.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <32F96662.F67@citynet.net> <5dcpoj$r8a@halon.vggas.com> <tx6804aigt.fsf@ime.usp.br> <5dpg38$1th@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: c01021-111poe.eos.ncsu.edu X-Anti-Spam-Message: use rot13 to decode my email address or get from .sig X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158497 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2501 In article <5dpg38$1th@innocence.interface-business.de>, J Wunsch wrote: >Alair Pereira do Lago <alair@ime.usp.br> wrote: > >> If the other case had >> happened, perhaps I would be using FreeBSD now. (Perhaps not since my disks >> always were IDE.) > >Well, but that's only a performance problem. Just to prevent >miscomprehension: FreeBSD runs of course fine on IDE drives, too. But what about the various IDE interfaces? I seem to remember a FreeBSD core member stating that 3 out of 5 IDE interfaces were broken and that like all sane people everybody should go out and buy a good SCSI controller and SCSI drives. Well that's a perfectly valid suggestion if you already know you want to run FreeBSD and haven't already invested money in crappy hardware that works perfectly fine with other OS's but I don't think it's too helpful to someone who wants to play around with a free Unix. I've got one of those RZ1000's with the buggy read ahead. Does FreeBSD work with this in a safe manner? What about the buggy CMD640's? Are IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMS supported? -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/ rkswamy at eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com