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To: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: current hard disks & old EIDE controllers?
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Steve Tremblett schrieb:
> 
> This is slightly offtopic, but I figure a lot of you people know
> PCs well.
> 
> I'm totally out of the loop in the PC world, and the last machine I
> bought was a P75 (which I still use) - the time has come to get a new
> hard disk, but I don't know what all these technologies are.  I don't
> know much about current trends, but all the drives I see are UDMA or
> ATA66.  I know that (E)IDE is backwards compatible with the original
> ATA, so that would suggest that this ATA66 stuff is as well, but I
> really don't know.
> 
> Are current IDE-derived drives compatible with old EIDE controllers?

Theoretically, yes.

> Will my BIOS freak out or does it matter?

Unfortunately, yes-

> Are there any issues with running FreeBSD in a system like this?

If your system is that old, you may think about upgrading to a recent
4.x versions first: there where bugs in the wd driver triggerd by big
drives.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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