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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31253 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1061 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!aludra.usc.edu!not-for-mail From: jimmyhua@aludra.usc.edu (Jimmy Huang) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Date: 25 Mar 1993 22:12:35 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1ou6sjINNh23@aludra.usc.edu> References: <C4BowL.DK3@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1ome2o$1lu6@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Mar23.085058.13670@serval.net.wsu.edu> <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <mafm.732963822@warabi> NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu mafm@cs.uwa.oz.au (Matthew McDonald) writes: > I don't think so. I can point you at people who lost gobs of >files to efs yesterday. No way is efs bug-free yet. I recall reading somewhere, that with ESDI HDs, Linux is *Supposed* to work based on the specs of ESDI, but it sometimes refuses to work correctly. I think with IDE and SCSI, the fs's work, and when there are bugs, they get fixed. But with ESDI, not much seems to be able to be done, and they can't find what's going wrong with it. ... (This is concerning Linux OS that is...) Jimmy >-- > Matthew McDonald mafm@cs.uwa.oz.au > Dare to be naive. -- Buckminster Fuller