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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 8 May 1996 08:44:24 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4mpmt8$na9@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <318FD68B.60AD12F6@lambert.org> <4mouan$cpb@agate.berkeley.edu> <dZDkxoHpv+EH089yn@skypoint.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: america.cs.berkeley.edu In article <dZDkxoHpv+EH089yn@skypoint.com>, Richard Steiner <rsteiner@skypoint.com> wrote: >>Are you saying that FreeBSD doesn't work on 3 out of 5 IDE CD-ROMS? >>Ouch! Or perhaps I've misunderstood you... > >In a nutshell, you've misunderstood him. Thank you for the clarification. I stand corrected. Is it fair to say FreeBSD doesn't work reliably on 3 out of 5 EIDE cards, due to the bugs (RZ1000 and CMD640) you described, in addition to FreeBSD EIDE driver problems? >FWIW, I believe both Linux and FreeBSD were affected by this, as were >OS/2, some flavors of Windows/NT pre-3.51, and many other OS's as well. >Whether or not it's fixed in any of these I don't frankly care, ... For those who care: The RZ1000 and CMD640 patches have been incorporated into the Linux kernel. The RZ1000 and CMD640 patches are available for OS/2 from http://www.teamos2.org/hvm/HVMindex.borris.patches.html as pj19409.zip. It is also available as: ftp://boris.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/Hobbes/patches/pj19409.zip I do not know if FreeBSD has a patch available. Anyone from the FreeBSD core team care to clarify this? >since >I Use SCSI As God Intended(tm), :-) Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu