Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:15:13 +0200 From: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: Quick hardware survey - disk INT13 "EDD" services? Message-ID: <46977AE1.9060004@smo.de> In-Reply-To: <200707130831.44748.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <f2njq6$8q3$1@sea.gmane.org> <200707130831.44748.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007 11:39:53 am Ivan Voras wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>Does anyone have a machine that doesn't support EDD / packet interface / >>"Extended INT13" interface on its hard drive(s) and is capable of >>running 7-CURRENT? (486 and early Pentium class machines?) > > > Specifically, you'd have to have a BIOS with a copyright date older than 1995. > I have an IBM Personal Computer 330-450DX2 which currently has NetBSD 2.0.2 installed. I don't know the exact copyright date of the BIOS, but I can power the machine up again if needed ;-) The hard drives are Western Digital Caviar 2600 (1.5GiB), but I also have two Western Digital Caviar 1365 (365MiB) it those are better suited for the task... I had problems installing FreeBSD on this machine back in 2005 (can't rememeber if it was low memory (32MiB) or "stupid" hard disk layout), but I can try it again as I have a little more experience now :-) For which purposes do you need the machine? HTH, Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj
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