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Subject: RE: ATA controller buggy chip: can I install 5.3 ?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Rob
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 12:40 AM
> To: FreeBSD questions
> Subject: ATA controller buggy chip: can I install 5.3 ?
> 
> 
> I ask this question, because the two PCs are at
> opposite ends of the world, and I must send the
> harddisk with 5.X by regular mail.
> So I like to know in advance whether 5.X is really
> going to work, given that it can run 4.10 right now.
>

Send 2 hard disks, one with 5.X and one with 4.11
and have the person at the other end install the 5.X
one first, then switch to the 4.11 one if the 5.X
one doesen't work.

Ted