Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:10:27 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd-uk Message-ID: <199604190140.LAA16940@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <1863.829871408@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 19, 96 00:50:08 am
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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 [[
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