From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 0:59:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182391112B for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:59:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA28975; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:58:11 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id JAA09760; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:55:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA14078; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:40:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23182; Tue, 23 Feb 99 09:49:54 +0100 Message-Id: <36D26CDF.66697F5B@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:54:55 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Szlaga Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A few quick questions... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 - > > 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