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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: sysop Message-ID: <CEo8qH.Eo8@veda.is> Date: 10 Oct 93 07:56:26 GMT References: <1993Oct10.012532.9121@altern.com> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 25 coupe@altern.com (coupe) writes: [FreeBSD] >Is anybody using it ...really?? 24 hours a day? Last crash here was 3 weeks ago. It doesn't look like it is screaming to crash again anytime soon either. This is with network and serial logins, sometimes over 10 at a time (only 2 serial). However, if you have a bad IDE card and/or disk (many of them are), the wd driver will hang the system distressingly often (sometimes hang it) because the hardware is expected to be perfect (which it rarely is). The same problem exists for NetBSD and 386bsd (R.I.P.). The wd driver also deals with ESDI and ST506 disks, and is presumably also problematic on that front. I have also seen the com driver hang the machine completely, but since replacing it with the sio driver, this problem has gone away. SCSI disks are a real must for a serious system. I thoroughly recommend FreeBSD to anyone who wants to run unix and dares to use an Intel (or compatible) CPU and the braindead PC architecture. -- adam@veda.is