From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 9: 3:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2835037B407 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:03:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjt@cisco.com) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [10.85.30.63]) by cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13755 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:03:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id MAA28710 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:03:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:03:37 -0400 From: Steve Tremblett To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT: current hard disks & old EIDE controllers? Message-ID: <20010615120337.C28619@sjt-u10.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 This is slightly offtopic, but I figure a lot of you people know PCs well. I'm totally out of the loop in the PC world, and the last machine I bought was a P75 (which I still use) - the time has come to get a new hard disk, but I don't know what all these technologies are. I don't know much about current trends, but all the drives I see are UDMA or ATA66. I know that (E)IDE is backwards compatible with the original ATA, so that would suggest that this ATA66 stuff is as well, but I really don't know. Are current IDE-derived drives compatible with old EIDE controllers? Will my BIOS freak out or does it matter? Are there any issues with running FreeBSD in a system like this? thanks to any and all responses -- Steve Tremblett Cisco Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message