Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:40:22 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Dimitur Ivanav Dimitrov <six_feet_under@mail.bg>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESDI Interface Support ? Message-ID: <14104.1120225222@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:55:21 %2B0200." <20050701125521.GF35575@cicely12.cicely.de>
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In message <20050701125521.GF35575@cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes: >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. I'm not sure you are 100% correct here. There is a difference between MFM/RLL and ESDI and we supported ESDI longer than the really old stuff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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