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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 bugs
Date: 19 Jul 1994 12:51:01 +0200
Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
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Folks,
I have just untarred FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 onto my system.

I have encountered the following bugs / problems:

1) the lpt driver (yet again) does not work with my Epson FX-85. It didn't
   work in 1.1 beta, and I have lost my copy of the lpa driver I used to use
   with 386BSD-0.0 :-(
   Has anybody out there got a copy of lpt.c that woks with the FX-85 ?
2) The CDIOCEJECT ioctl does not work if the drive is still accessed, I think.
   Well, I find it a little difficult to do an ioctl to a non-open drive...
3) the packages-1.1/xcdplayer keeps dumping core on SIGSEGV
4) the bootblocks do not work on root filesystems that use 16k/2k blocksize,
   even when re-compiled with the appropriate #define in both copies of the
   sys/param.h

However, the system *does* give better I/O performance on the disks :)

-Bernard