Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:00:47 CST From: Kent Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hard Drive Question Message-ID: <199903160000.SAA09681@isua4.iastate.edu>
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Hi. My current 3.1-Stable machine current has a number of SCSI drives on it and no IDE drives. I now need a cheap source of storage that does not need to be high performance. IDE would seem to fill this need nicely if the drives will work with FreeBSD. The system has an Adaptec 2940 UW controller and boots from the first SCSI drive. After adding the IDE drive I still want this this behavior. With a 486 of mine I have been able to do this but not entering the hard drive information in the BIOS. The IDE drives that I am interested in are 10+ Gb IBM or Seagate drives. Will FreeBSD support these drives to their full capacity and not disturb my current system? Having used SCSI for many years I have lost track of the state of IDE. The manual for my motherboard says that it supports EIDE modes 0-4. Nothing about ultra, ata, etc. is mentioned. Does this limit the my choices of drives that can be made? While I would like to purchase SCSI drives, my needs do not currently require them and the extra expense is hard to overlook. If need be, I can move some of the less used data to the IDE drives and the leave the data that is accessed most often on the SCSI drives. Thanks! --- Kent Vander Velden kent@iastate.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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