From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 23:07:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA29395 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA29389 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00370; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:06:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Peder cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support EIDE harddrives? In-Reply-To: <32613928.503D@krull.dk> 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 Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Peder wrote: > Does FreeBSD support Enhanced IDE harddrives? The documentation only > says IDE and hopefully you have just forgotten to update it. What's the difference between an EIDE and IDE drive? Of course they work, and you get the whole capacity too. Only thing is, does your BIOS support booting over 1024 cylinders? (probably not) > Can Linux source be compiled into FreeBSD binaries without changes? Depends on the source and how much system interaction it does. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major