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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!news.grnet.gr!btnet-feed2!news.netlink.co.uk!easynet-uk!newsfeed.easynet.co.uk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.radio.cz!CESspool!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news-relay.ncren.net!nntp-xfer.ncsu.edu!news From: exfjnzl@rbf.apfh.rqh (Ravi K. Swamy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 12 Feb 1997 19:09:57 GMT Organization: Gunsmith Cats Lines: 36 Message-ID: <slrn5g45c5.8vo.exfjnzl@c00591-2411br.eos.ncsu.edu> 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> <33013ACA.695678E2@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: c00591-2411br.eos.ncsu.edu X-Anti-Spam-Message: use rot13 to decode my email address or get from .sig X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-1 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158147 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2482 In article <33013ACA.695678E2@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >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 Yes, the comment I am remembering is at least 6 months old. I tried looking under http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html but most of the pages relating to IDE hd's and cd-roms were blank hence the question/statement. >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! :-) My roommate told me that you have a "nice" *cough* Packard Bell machine. :) Good luck on your work. -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/ rkswamy at eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com