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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:05:40 -0500
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Peter da Silva wrote:
> 
> In article <5doc1s$jhd$1@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
> Mr Stuart Lamble <lamble@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> > That's probably the major reason for using Linux over FreeBSD - from all
> > accounts, Linux is very much more IDE friendly than BSD.
> 
> In what way? I've never had any IDE problems with FreeBSD. Hell, the first
> box I set up was on dual 380MB ESDI drives. IDE would have been a major step
> up.
>
I regularly get 5-7MBytes/sec on my IDE drives through the filesystem. 
Even
old 540's give 2.5MBytes/sec or better...

John