Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 9:19:34 CDT From: "Mr. TR Nguyen" <xxnguyen@utacnvx.uta.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-questions) Subject: Western Digital Caviar 1.28Gig HDD? Message-ID: <199510201419.JAA21588@utacnvx.uta.edu>
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Hello everyone, A colleague at work wants to install FreeBSD on his 60Mhz Pentium. He already is running MoneySoft DOS/Windozzzze, and he would like to add a FreeBSD partiion. His machine has the following features: AMBRA - American Megatrend (AMI) bios, dated 1992 Has a regular I.D.E. controller card Has a Western Digital 1.28Gig Caviar HDD as the master Has an IDE CD-ROM connected to the Controller card as "SLAVE" Obviously, because of the old bios, he has to use "Ontrack Disk Manager" to even get DOS running. He cannot seem to locate the BIOS chipset on this particular No-name motherboard. The most logical choice would be to buy an EIDE board and hopefully, the board's bios will take over. To those of you who have ran into the bios' limit of 528Meg, what kind of EIDE board(s) did you get? We would appreciate any insight that you may share with us. Thankx, T. Nguyen (xxnguyen@utacnx.uta.edu) --
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