Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:57:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Marc Nicholas <marc@hippocampus.net> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980626225436.25377L-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980626164909.22087P-100000@neuron.hippocampus.net>
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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Marc Nicholas wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> > All the time I was misunderstanding you - you have the _IDE_ version that
> > plugs directly to the IDE interface, while my version is an ISA card which
> > installs its own BIOS in order to mimick an IDE drive... Forgive me, it's
> > late here and I'm a bit tired... These versions are completely different
> > beasts then...
> >
> > So, this is a bad news for me. But we'll try to use its BIOS to do the
> > thing...
>
> It'll work just fine. Don't worry :-) The BIOS on the card will mask it as
> a regular IDE drive to the operating system...unless FreeBSD does anything
> perculiar with IDE drives?
Yes - it doesn't use the BIOS at all, except when booting... that's why I
was so surprised. So, this will not work (as I expected) unless we write a
driver.
Andrzej Bialecki
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