From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 18:12:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A9437B404 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.64.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6EA43F85 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from 207.179.99.38 ([207.179.99.38]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:12:46 -0500 From: taxman To: Bsd Neophyte , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware compatiblity list and upgrading Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:15:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030313000018.96609.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030313000018.96609.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303122115.52022.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Mar 2003 02:12:47.0317 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A639850:01C2E906] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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