From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 8 21:05:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA25854 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:05:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA25756 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA05068; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:00:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:00:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mark Dickey cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions In-Reply-To: <199703080006.TAA02719@okeefe.bestweb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Mark Dickey wrote: > I am looking into a EIDE Adapter from GSI called the 2C. It is labeled > 16-bit Dual-Channel EIDE Adapter. It is supposed to upgrade the BIOS so it > recongized hard drives over 2.1. Will this work with FreeBSD? Perhaps. We've had bad run-ins from "smart" IDE controllers thinking they can rule the world. (Promise controllers are notorius) At worst, you'll know right away there's a problem when you try to boot FreeBSD and it blows up or doesn't find wdc0. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major