Re: Should I switch? [was Re: A novel idea....]

2001-04-05 Thread John Summerfield
be on the line if he gets it wrong, or it's his pet part of the overall Scheme of Things and he really truly cares about it. In that regard, I don't see that FreeBSD is a lot different from a distribution. Remember too that a good deal of the software on BSD is the same as is on linux.

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata

2000-11-03 Thread John Summerfield
> Dear All, > > > > > > > Well, that chip is so broken by design, no software workaround > > > > can help its misery, a hardware fix exists, but cant (easily) be > > > > > > As Volker notes; Linux can work round it. So can OS/2. I > > > don't know the details, but there ARE modes wher

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata

2000-11-02 Thread John Summerfield
> It seems Volker Stolz wrote: > > The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is > > severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for > > Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board > > should be a couple of years old, it's for regula

Re: Filesystem holes

2000-10-31 Thread John Summerfield
> > :> actually being used, while providing instant lookups. > > :> > > :> The single file would be about 96G addressable bytes... But the actual > > :> block count would be much lower. I suppose I will have to create a seri > es > > :> of these files and divide the problem into < 4GB chunks, b