From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 07:19:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA05397 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 07:19:41 -0700 Received: from utacnvx.uta.edu (utacnvx.uta.edu [129.107.1.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA05391 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 07:19:36 -0700 Received: (from xxnguyen@localhost) by utacnvx.uta.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA21588 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 09:19:34 -0500 From: "Mr. TR Nguyen" Message-Id: <199510201419.JAA21588@utacnvx.uta.edu> Subject: Western Digital Caviar 1.28Gig HDD? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-questions) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 9:19:34 CDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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) --