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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:36:42 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33013ACA.695678E2@FreeBSD.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <slrn5ekm26.5ml.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org> <slrn5feb63.93l.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <32F96662.F67@citynet.net> <5dcpoj$r8a@halon.vggas.com> <tx6804aigt.fsf@ime.usp.br> <5dpg38$1th@innocence.interface-business.de> <slrn5g135j.nml.exfjnzl@c01021-111poe.eos.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: "Ravi K. Swamy" <exfjnzl@rbf.apfh.rqh> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158080 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2478 Ravi K. Swamy wrote: > But what about the various IDE interfaces? I seem to remember a > FreeBSD core member stating that 3 out of 5 IDE interfaces were > broken and that like all sane people everybody should go out and > buy a good SCSI controller and SCSI drives. Well that's a perfectly I think you're quoting something a little out of context, to say nothing of it being a rather aged comment. Much has changed since the early days of truly evil IDE controllers and their various and wonderful ways of being totally broken. That's not to say that such controllers aren't still around, simply that the typical mainstream IDE controller can no longer be deemed genuinely evil, just nasty. :-) We do a much better job of supporting IDE than we used to, especially in the 2.2 branch. It was also true for some time that most of the core team folk didn't even *have* IDE drives in their systems, all knowing enough to buy SCSI from the very start, and their purchasing wisdom worked against us until we managed to secure IDE drive-using systems or purchased IDE drives with donated funds for testing. My new test machine has 2 IDE drives, a SCSI drive, a SCSI CDROM and an IDE CDROM attached to a SB16 card. If I can ever get this combo to work 100%, especially in combination with other operating systems, I'll deem our improvements a success! :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team.