Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:15:52 -0500 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware compatiblity list and upgrading Message-ID: <200303122115.52022.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <20030313000018.96609.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030313000018.96609.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 12 March 2003 07:00 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > alright my bookpc that has served me nicely for over a year now has gone > to hell. > > i've had a Dual P3-700e on an Asus P2B-LS. unfortunately, this MB doesn't > have anything beyond an ata33. the drive I have is an ata100 drive. i'm > sure as a PDC/NTP/DNS server, this is more than aqequate, but i'm also > looking to make this unit a proxy server. therefore i'm looking to get a > Maxtor (Promise) ATA Ultra 100 PCI card. > > i need two things. > > 1. to find if this stuff will all work with FreeBSD 4.7 or 5.0 look at the hardware links right on www.freebsd.org > 2. if i can simply take the HD out of the older machine and slap it into > the new machine most likely, if it has a proper MBR/boot loader and the new hardware can work with the old drive. Make sure to have proper cables. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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