Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:54:55 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: Mark Szlaga <mszlaga@engin.umd.umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few quick questions... Message-ID: <36D26CDF.66697F5B@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9902230003360.6384-100000@engin.umd.umich.edu>
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Mark Szlaga wrote: > > Greetings, > I have a couple of quick questions... > > 1. How can one access an extended partition on the hdd. they exist as wd0s5, wd0s6, ... (on an IDE disk) (wd0s1 to wd0s4 being the "real" partitions of your disk) > > 2. Linux has a feature called ide-scsi which is a transport for programs like > cdrecord to be able to use IDE CD-R and CD-RW burners. Is there such a beast > in FreeBSD, or is there another solution that would work with IDE burners? The acd driver of 3.1-Release should work with Atapi CD-Rom burners (I don't have tried this) > > 3. back in 2.2.x there was an interface to support a floppy tape (ft0) > which I need to access my Iomega Ditto Easy 3200. I saw in some of > the FreeBSD documentation that this is an unsupported feature, and was > just wondering how to enable it. I'm afraid the flopy tape driver is suffering from severe bit rot and thus is deprecated. (but volunteers are welcome) TfH > > I am looking to switch over to FreeBSD from Linux permanently, and also get > rid of Windows. So far 3.1 release has thouroughly impressed me both with > speed and support for my somewhat unique system setup. Great Job to all > that have worked on this project and keep up the good work! > > Thanks in Advance, > Mark > > -- > Mark Szlaga mszlaga@umd.umich.edu http://www.umd.umich.edu/~mszlaga/ > /dev/hdb5 - 0.5Gb of spinning metal, all alone in the night... > - unknown - alt.sysadmin.recovery > /dev/hdb5 - our last best hope for free space... > - Chip Salzenberg - <chip@pobox.com> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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