Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:50:39 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> To: kent@iastate.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive Question Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990315164646.-15895E-100000@bb-b1-11a> In-Reply-To: <199903160000.SAA09681@isua4.iastate.edu>
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> 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 same is still true, having just recently experienced it myself. BUT, I think it's highly suggested you still setup the paramaters. Luckily though, most newer BIOS have a setting, simply set it to boot from SCSI first. > 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? Yes, as long as the BIOS translates corrctly you'll be able to format and slice them up however you wish. :) > 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? Not really... these days pretty much every thing is an Ultra ATA EIDE Hard drive....:) The EIDE modes is not important, and is actually automatically assigned (usually.) > 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. I do the same, it works fine. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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