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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: bsd386 on laptops?
Date: 10 Mar 1994 17:23:37 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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References: <HOFFMAN.94Feb25125344@tesuji.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> <pascal.763312539@tempa>
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In article <pascal.763312539@tempa>,
Pascal Pederiva <pascal@zuo.dec.com> wrote:
>>has anyone had successful experiences with 386BSD derivates on any*
>>laptop machine?
>
>FreeBSD 1.0.0 works pretty fine on my DECpc 325 slc (=386sx/sl cpu)  
>the only 'problem' is that it seems to hang for a couple of seconds
>after probing the harddisk (wd0).

FreeBSD 1.0.X does that on all machines.  In FreeBSD 1.1 there is still
a delay, but it's not quite as long.  This was due to the probe routine
going off looking for other drives and taking it sweet time in not
finding them. :(


Nate
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