Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX > permissions on their > > proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a > patch is committed > > into the source tree. > > That doesn't make any sense. No hard drive vendor "supports UNIX > permissions" on their hard drives. File permissions are completely > a software thing and have little to do with the hardware underneath > - as long as the hardware works at all. > > Now, WinXP does NOT support UNIX file permissions... > Ditch it and get a real OS! > > (I have FreeBSD installed on lots of Dell machines including the > one I am currently typing on and file permissions work just fine)
Ah, but did you ever check to see whether those machines had the proprietary hard drives fitted! ;) P.S. I think he's pulling someone's leg. Either that or he's had his pulled. Mind you, maybe it's a vision of the future with the DMCA and all... Write error on multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT: This disk only allows Microsoft file permissions to be written. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"