Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:28:03 -0500 From: David Anderson <partek@iquest.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: EIDE support Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960214232803.00673220@pop.iquest.net>
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I've attempted to install FreeBSD on 2 machines that are using EIDE cards(Promise and Siig) because they have hard drives larger than 528MB and the motherboard has no LBA support in it's BIOS. Well, both times FreeBSD refused to work, and on one the install disk even refused to boot. I was told on #FreeBSD that it's because FreeBSD doesn't support the EIDE standard. I don't have the money to upgrade these machines to SCSI, or upgrade their motherboards to ones with BIOS's that have LBA support, and would rather use FreeBSD than Linux for obvious reasons(both are servers). So, I'm curious if there are plans to add EIDE support? Thanks, Dave
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