Please help with upgrade-questions to FBSD-2.1
Darius Moos
URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT.
Hi folks,
first i want to thank the developers of FreeBSD for all their really good work
on FreeBSD. I'm running FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 now for a long time and never had
problems with it (except some little; maybe not worth to mention: starting
two processes writing to the same directory on a mounted dos-partition
results in crosslinked files or directories. Will this be fixed in FBSD-2.1 ?)
I want to upgrade to FreeBSD-2.1 when it is released and i have some questions
about it's capabilities:
-Does FreeBSD support PCI ?
-Does FreeBSD support Plug&Play ?
-Does FreeBSD support SCSI-harddisks of sizes greater 1 GB ?
-Does FreeBSD support partition-mounting of Win95 partitions with the
extended attributes ?
-Does FreeBSD support ZIP-drives and which device is to be used with
this drives ?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Please email to: mo...@fmi.uni-passau.de
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Many thanks in advance for all your help,
bye, Darius.
Stefan Esser
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|> URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT. PLEASE HELP. URGENT.
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|> Hi folks,
|>
|> first i want to thank the developers of FreeBSD for all their really good work
|> on FreeBSD. I'm running FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 now for a long time and never had
|> problems with it (except some little; maybe not worth to mention: starting
|> two processes writing to the same directory on a mounted dos-partition
|> results in crosslinked files or directories. Will this be fixed in FBSD-2.1 ?)
|>
|> I want to upgrade to FreeBSD-2.1 when it is released and i have some questions
|> about it's capabilities:
|> -Does FreeBSD support PCI ?
Yes, since June of '94 ...
|> -Does FreeBSD support Plug&Play ?
Well, why do you want one of those ISA plug'n'play cards,
if they are no cheaper than the same functionality on a
PCI card ???
|> -Does FreeBSD support SCSI-harddisks of sizes greater 1 GB ?
Yes, sure.
|> -Does FreeBSD support partition-mounting of Win95 partitions with the
|> extended attributes ?
No.
|> -Does FreeBSD support ZIP-drives and which device is to be used with
|> this drives ?
ZIP drives should be supported as harddisk devices.
Just be sure to unmount them before changing disks
(or do the drives offer a media lock feature ?)
Gruss, STefan
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Wilko Bulte
>I want to upgrade to FreeBSD-2.1 when it is released and i have some questions
>about it's capabilities:
> -Does FreeBSD support PCI ?
Yep.
> -Does FreeBSD support Plug&Play ?
Don't think so
> -Does FreeBSD support SCSI-harddisks of sizes greater 1 GB ?
Oh yes.
> -Does FreeBSD support partition-mounting of Win95 partitions with the
> extended attributes ?
Yuck. Probably not.
> -Does FreeBSD support ZIP-drives and which device is to be used with
> this drives ?
Lots of talk about ZIP drives in the mailing lists. Whether it works ???
Wilko
Ollivier Robert
> > -Does FreeBSD support ZIP-drives and which device is to be used with
> > this drives ?
>
> Lots of talk about ZIP drives in the mailing lists. Whether it works ???
>
> Wilko
Last time I heard of ZIP drives, they do work.
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