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To: ticso@cicely.de, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
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Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ESDI Interface Support ? (Backward compatible)
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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.


=D6=E8=F2=E0=F2 =ED=E0 =EF=E8=F1=EC=EE =EE=F2 Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.c=
icely.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 =3D
> > >support only ESDI hard disks on ISA slot. I wonder if
> there is a version =3D
> > >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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