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Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive



>>>>> "Jake" == Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> writes:

    [excellent description of Zip drives deleted]
	...
    Jake> Yesterday I installed a regular 230MB Bernoulli drive (SCSI)
    Jake> at work on our 100MHz Pentium, and although it works fine
    Jake> with Windows NT and DOS, it does NOT work with Linux. :-(

Sorry to hear that.  I had hoped the days of SCSI incompatibility were
behind us (everyone in the computer industry), at least for disk
drives.

    Jake> One other thing (sorry to be so off-topic): Has anyone else
    Jake> been having problems with the ELF version of Linux? 
	...
    Jake> I'll have to recopy those libraries from a boot floppy or I
    Jake> can't even boot :-( In the meantime I'm very disenchanted
    Jake> with Linux, and I've decided to make the jump to FreeBSD
    Jake> when the next version is released in September.  There is a
    Jake> Linux emulation library for FreeBSD which lets you play
    Jake> Linux DOOM, perhaps with sufficient work one could use
    Jake> Executor on it.  I'll update this list as I find out more...

People who want to discuss the merits of Linux vs. FreeBSD are welcome
to contact Jake directly, but are encouraged to avoid starting a
discussion on this list.  Remember, we have many NEXTSTEP and
DOS/Windows users who wouldn't be particularly interested in the
discussion.  I don't mind people piggybacking questions to the
Executor community (within reason: no "do you need a green card?" type
questions) on top of useful letters as long as the resulting
discussion doesn't occur on the list.

That being said, it is worth pointing out that Steven Wallace has
already made enough modifications to the Linux emulation library that
FreeBSD will soon be able to run Executor/Linux with no known FreeBSD
specific incompatibilities.  I don't know whether that will still be
the case when we get an SVGAlib version out for Linux, though.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com


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