Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:05:42 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Now here's something for FreeBSD advocacy Message-ID: <20040805130043.X7929@orion> In-Reply-To: <4111FE83.9090602@pacbell.net> References: <4111FE83.9090602@pacbell.net>
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On 2004-08-05 02:31, Daniel Rudy wrote: > > Using an older motherboard (AT form factor (not ATX) made in 2000) > which there are no more BIOS updates being made (Last one is in the > ROM), with a newer harddisk that the BIOS crashed when it tried to > probe it, FreeBSD took the drive directly at the hardware level and > used it with no problems. Yeah, this is always an impressive feature of the various Open Source UNIXes I've tried until now. They often "just work" in cases where other OSes stop and start asking silly questions like: "Do you have a driver for this device?" :-)
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