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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM on IDE? Date: 12 Jul 1996 05:41:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 54 Message-ID: <4s4oia$ias@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4rjve9$ju2@netaxs.com> <31E048DE.446B9B3D@freebsd.org> <4s1m26$ard@netaxs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E heller@cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) wrote: > : Wait for 2.1.5 if you want IDE CDROM suppose that's a little easier to > : use, though probably no more functional overall. > > Great.. I just ordered the 2.1 release and the 2.2 snap.. I guess > I'll be seeing the 2.1.5 release soon eh? The 2.2 SNAP should do it as well. The difference to 2.1.5 is that it's a snapshot of the development source tree, no guarantees at all, but alot of new features to play with if you like this. To the contrary, 2.1.5 is a system for the conservative; almost no new features compared to 2.1, but all the bug fixes that could go in without risking the stability of other areas in the system went in. It took the developers a great pain to maintain this dual-tracked way for more than a year now. We hope you will enjoy it. > : Lack of volunteers to work on and improve it - it's that simple. Are > : you volunteering? :-) > > heh..cute.. I'm too busy at my real job! =) We're, too, you wouldn't believe it? > I just think it was kind of strange that FreeBSD is BUILT for the PC > and 90% of the ( I guess at the figure, please don't flame me ) PC's > out there are IDE based. No. It's definately not built for ``the PC''. It's built for Unix workstations based on the i[3456]86 CPU. It incidentally sometimes even runs on cheap PC hardware. ;-) I hope you understand the difference between both. I can assure you, i've never had too much troubles except when entering ``white'' areas like hacking the CD-R support. But then, i avoided every of the crappy (but often cheap) blessings of the computer industry: i bought an EISA board by a time VLB got its culmination (even though the EISA was twice as expensive -- but i correctly identified VLB as ``crap by design'', even though this was not already common wisdom back three years); i never even considered non-SCSI peripherals (CD-ROM, tape) when there were SCSI peripherals available that can do the same. Too bad that you can't get a good floppy disk drive for a PC. (Yes, there are also SCSI floppies, but the PC architecture won't boot off it, and at least what i have seen was so terribly slow that i didn't consider this an alternative.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)