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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:49:55 +0100
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
To:        Joseph Chandler <jwc_iv@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: parallel port backpack IDE/UDMA HardDrive
Message-ID:  <19991103004955.41722@breizh.free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <19991001172324.28823.rocketmail@web1004.mail.yahoo.com>; from Joseph Chandler on Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:23:24AM -0700
References:  <19991001172324.28823.rocketmail@web1004.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:23:24AM -0700, Joseph Chandler wrote:
>
>Hi, I've been a Linux user since 94.  I'm wanting to
>move to FreeBSD for it's orgainization and package
>management setup.  I'm so sick of lib problems and
>lack of source installs not updating the rpm database.

Nobody here will disagree.

>
>Anyway, there is one thing I need to know before I
>move over.  Can you use a parallel port backpack IDE
>harddrive in FreeBSD?

No.

>
>In Linux, you load a parallel port driver and then a
>parallel port IDE driver to get a backpack harddrive
>to work.  In the FreeBSD Hardware Faqs, this question
>had a * with no answers on it.  Has that supported be
>added?  Will it?

If you do it yes. My advice about programming the parallel
port under FreeBSD would help.

>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>Joseph
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