Re: [cobalt-users] Interesting Discovery - RAQ4 & Qube3

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JF> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:17:11 -0500
JF> From: Jerry Farquhar <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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JF> Long and short is the Raq4 booted up on the Qube3 drives and
JF> suddenly took on the entire personality of the Qube3
JF> including all of the operations and functions etc..

All that "personality" is stored on the hard drive.  When proper
drivers are present in the kernel, such as when moving between
identical or "close enough" hardware configs, one encounters what
you did.

I have a couple FreeBSD machines sitting on my home desk from
which I type.  One has a Mylex DAC960PG RAID controller and RAID
array.  If I shipped the controller and dries to you, and you
installed them in a compatible machine, your system would be
transformed into mine.

Or if I sent the hard drives from my Windows machine to someone
else with an Optiplex GX1 and Matrox Millennium II... they'd
suddenly have MS Office, Photoshop, BC++, Visual Interdev, and a
ton of geeky PS and PDF documents.  But if they didn't have a
monitor capable of 1600x1200 resolution, things wouldn't work
properly without a [minor in this case] change or two.

In short:  Same deal between "close enough" hardware like Qube
and RaQ, both 3 and 4.


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