Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:48:51 +0300 From: six_feet_under@mail.bg To: ticso@cicely.de, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESDI Interface Support ? (Backward compatible) Message-ID: <1120225731.05450c1010ae1@mail.bg> In-Reply-To: <20050701125521.GF35575@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <000601c57d7c$6898aca0$1700a8c0@radyk> <11762.1120218285@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050701125521.GF35575@cicely12.cicely.de>
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In fact I have tryed to put IDE ISA adapter instead of my ESDI interface card but it doesn't work. The only way is the ISA Adapter to have it's own BIOS. I have tryed with KXQWDH-7001C interface card. Цитат на писмо от Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>: > 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 > > <br/> --------------------------------------<br/> Безплатната поща в mail.bg вече е 1GB!help
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