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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Please help with upgrade-questions to FBSD-2.1 Date: 2 Oct 1995 18:36:46 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 46 Message-ID: <44pbfu$pc0@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <44mlvi$1jf@news.rz.uni-passau.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de Keywords: FreeBSD-2.1(RELEASE), upgrade-questions To: moos@fmi.uni-passau.de (Darius Moos) Bcc: se Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6746 comp.unix.bsd.misc:246 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5723 comp.os.386bsd.questions:17618 comp.unix.bsd:16713 In article <44mlvi$1jf@news.rz.uni-passau.de>, moos@fmi.uni-passau.de (Darius Moos) writes: |> |> URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. |> |> Hi folks, |> |> first i want to thank the developers of FreeBSD for all their really good work |> on FreeBSD. I'm running FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 now for a long time and never had |> problems with it (except some little; maybe not worth to mention: starting |> two processes writing to the same directory on a mounted dos-partition |> results in crosslinked files or directories. Will this be fixed in FBSD-2.1 ?) |> |> I want to upgrade to FreeBSD-2.1 when it is released and i have some questions |> about it's capabilities: |> -Does FreeBSD support PCI ? Yes, since June of '94 ... |> -Does FreeBSD support Plug&Play ? Well, why do you want one of those ISA plug'n'play cards, if they are no cheaper than the same functionality on a PCI card ??? |> -Does FreeBSD support SCSI-harddisks of sizes greater 1 GB ? Yes, sure. |> -Does FreeBSD support partition-mounting of Win95 partitions with the |> extended attributes ? No. |> -Does FreeBSD support ZIP-drives and which device is to be used with |> this drives ? ZIP drives should be supported as harddisk devices. Just be sure to unmount them before changing disks (or do the drives offer a media lock feature ?) Gruss, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>