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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Stable *BSD for Intel Date: 27 Mar 1994 17:50:36 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2n4h1c$ct4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2l81of$rmp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <MYCROFT.94Mar17222306@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <2mnb20$8us@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CGD.94Mar26180926@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CGD.94Mar26180926@eden.cs.berkeley.edu>, Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >In article <2mnb20$8us@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>Tell me what these particular 'stability' problem were Charles, so the >>rest of us can know, since I'm not aware of them. > >well, i saw at least one piece of mail go by in which the author >of the mail claimed that the new FreeBSD wd driver did "Bad Things" (TM) >to his file systems... Please show me. There were problems with it doing 'nothing' to his file system due to the bogus partition table, but definately not bad things. I could state all sorts of things w/out any proof as well about any piece of software, but it wouldn't be true. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.