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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!n1ott.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!sun4nl!cwi.nl!news.cwi.nl!avg From: avg@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink) Subject: Re: Does 2.1R support 4x ATAPIs? Message-ID: <avg.839238744@news.cwi.nl> Sender: news@cwi.nl (The Daily Dross) Nntp-Posting-Host: mijt.cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam References: <4tp20n$ao9@maui.cc.odu.edu> <SCOTT.96Aug2131630@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:52:24 GMT Lines: 20 scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell) writes: >> Now, I remember the 2.1 snapshots, even just 2 weeks before the release, >> didn't work well with 4x speed drives. But I think I had 2.1R working with >> a 4x-speed Mitsumi drive on another machine a while back. >My Creative 4x works most of the time. I suspect it's the cruftiness >of the drive firmware rather than how fast it goes that determines >whether it will work or not. Maybe this Hitachi is just a little bit >crappier than the Mitsumi? Nah, no offense, but it's not that; BSD 2.1 is just a little bit crappier than Linux! The supplied kernels screw up completely with CDROMs. Very bad advertising! -- Annius V. Groenink .......................................... avg@cwi.nl Room M233, CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam phone +31 20 592 40 77 .. and ZFC/home P.O.Box 15813, 1001 NH Amsterdam phone +31 20 4 208 248 .. zfc@zfc.nl .........................................................