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From: jim mckie jmk@pla...
Subject: Another system running
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:39:46 -0500

Just for the record, the reason there is no support for IDE
drives as the main filesystem is that, at the time the port
was done, there were no large IDE drives or multiple IDE
controllers available and I didn't think it was worth it.

Times change.

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FS using IDE?  do tell

ksh