From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 6: 7: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66EC37B671 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 06:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA21024 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:26:52 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e99D6fd05806 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:06:41 +0400 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:06:41 +0400 From: Igor Roboul To: FSD Subject: Re: BIOS unsupported HDDs Message-ID: <20001009170641.A5519@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: FSD References: <39E0BEEB.BC95C300@ispchannel.com> <20001009093531.G4647@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <39E1BCA9.488B6626@ispchannel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <39E1BCA9.488B6626@ispchannel.com>; from mhumm@ispchannel.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:40:09AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:40:09AM -0500, Mark Hummel wrote: > Odhiambo, > > 4.1.1 will recognize a 20 GB HDD even if the BIOS does not? That's amazing! > How can an OS recognize hardware without consulting the BIOS? Oh, your BIOS knows nothing about your TNT2 :-) It still thinks that it can support only 80x43 in extended EGA mode :-) But about drives. I think if you'll insert your new 20GB hdd into old PC with 386sx, even FreeBSD 5-CURRENT will not help you :-( So. You can forget about LBA etc with FreeBSD or Linux. You can forget about BIOS upgrades. But you need to have reasonable new MB. -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message