Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:52:44 +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, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: ESDI Interface Support ? Message-ID: <20050701135244.GL35575@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <14104.1120225222@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20050701125521.GF35575@cicely12.cicely.de> <14104.1120225222@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. I lost my ESDI disks when wd driver was removed. Maybe there were other drivers for e.g. EISA cards. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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