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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 1995 09:42:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      bmk@dtr.com
To:        wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS problems...
Message-ID:  <199510261642.JAA18708@dtr.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510260749.AAA29972@wiley.csusb.edu> from "William Wong" at Oct 26, 95 00:49:12 am

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> Does the NFS in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 work with IBM RS/6000 machines running AIX 3.2?
> Does it work with an Intel box running ESIX System V release 3.2 ?  Whenever I
> mount the hard disks on those machines, NFS chokes when the FreeBSD box tries
> to write to the mounted filesystems as root.  I'm using the FreeBSD box as a
> mail server and mounting the /var directory because the hard disk is small
> (130 Megs).

Can't say.  I wouldn't use a shared mail spool, though.  FreeBSD doesn't
support NFS file locking (some goes for other free UN*Xes and some
commercial ones as well).

> Btw, are ESDI drives being supported on FreeBSD 2.0.ish versions?  I can get
> the 1.1.5.1 version to install with no problems, but the 2.0.ish versions would
> just refuse to install.  I'm using the same geometry with the 2.0.ish versions
> as with the 1.1.5.1 version.

ESDI drives are supported under 2.0.5 and later but not 2.0.  2.0 lacked
bad144 handling.  You _could_ get away with using ESDI (or other ST506
style drives) under 2.0 if you had perfect media.  ESDI drives with
perfect media are pretty rare. :)

I used an ESDI under 2.0.5 successfully for quite awhile.



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