Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:55:21 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Dimitur Ivanav Dimitrov <six_feet_under@mail.bg>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESDI Interface Support ? Message-ID: <20050701125521.GF35575@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <11762.1120218285@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <000601c57d7c$6898aca0$1700a8c0@radyk> <11762.1120218285@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:44:45PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <000601c57d7c$6898aca0$1700a8c0@radyk>, "Dimitur Ivanav Dimitrov" wr > ites: > >Hi, > >I am a new in FreeBSD and have a little problem. My old computer's BIOS = > >support only ESDI hard disks on ISA slot. I wonder if there is a version = > >of FreeBSD which supports both ESDI and IDE and where can I get it from? > > You need a pretty old FreeBSD version for that. FreeBSD 5.x or later > will not support it, FreeBSD 4.x may, but I'm not sure. 3.x is the last FreeBSD supporting direct attached MFM/RLL/ESDI disks. Likely a computer that has no BIOS support for ata disks will have lots of other shortcomings too. But I'm surprised by this statement as well - an IDE disk with an ISA adapter should be backward compatible to MFM/RLL/ESDI controller. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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