From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 18:47:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA22670 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 18:47:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA22664 Thu, 18 Apr 1996 18:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA16940; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:10:28 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604190140.LAA16940@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: freebsd-uk To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:10:27 +0930 (CST) Cc: nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <1863.829871408@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 19, 96 00:50:08 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Palmer stands accused of saying: > without decent (E)IDE support, I can't. And I don't mean just CDROM's > but also LBA disks (i.e. large disks) too. What about them? All IDE disks are addressed in "LBA" mode already. > It was annoying recently when a friend really wanted to move to > FreeBSD, but it wouldn't install properly on his box. Downloaded > slackware 3.0 of sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk and ran first time. The problem? > A 1Gb EIDE disk that needs to be shared between DOS & UN*X. I can't be > sure (I'm about400 miles from the machine in question), but I'm > betting that FreeBSD couldn't hack the translation produced by the > controller. FreeBSD doesn't use any "translation", and IDE disks don't have "controllers" (unless it was one of those Promise cards), they have "address decoders". Why am I narked? Because you're bagging FreeBSD for something that's not actually it's fault. 8) > Gary -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[