Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:48:04 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick hardware survey - disk INT13 "EDD" services? Message-ID: <469790A4.3060803@fer.hr> In-Reply-To: <46977AE1.9060004@smo.de> References: <f2njq6$8q3$1@sea.gmane.org> <200707130831.44748.jhb@freebsd.org> <46977AE1.9060004@smo.de>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB3DD9AA008D4164CE4DE5E85 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Philipp Ost wrote: > 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?)= > 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 suite= d > for the task... > For which purposes do you need the machine? I started this thread way back when I hoped I may have the time to add support for GPT booting myself, with the purpose of trying to simplify the loader and discard the support for old non-EDD BIOS-es. Won't happen now, but thanks for the report - maybe someone else can use the information. --------------enigB3DD9AA008D4164CE4DE5E85 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGl5CpldnAQVacBcgRAjLKAKCmPaUTz9YD/PQTfBRB2vNJcFahZwCfSMwE K6l2Rsai6CfCVUWuXnbEGxs= =JHnZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB3DD9AA008D4164CE4DE5E85--
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