Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:33:00 +0200 From: Iani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> To: kent@iastate.edu Cc: Freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hard Drive Question Message-ID: <36EDA6BC.EC0A433@bulinfo.net> References: <199903160000.SAA09681@isua4.iastate.edu>
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Kent Vander Velden wrote: > > 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? As I know 3.1 supports disks > 8 GB, but I don't know the upper limit :) > 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? I haven't had such troubles. They must be compatible with the older IDE controllers, as I know & yours isn't much old. I tried an IBM 6.x GB IDE disk. It was great - silent & doing about 12MB/s sequential r/w under FreeBSD. > 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. Right. IDE drives are perfect for backups ;) SCSI is for the real work. That's my opinion too. --iani To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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