Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:38:52 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@fer.hr> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? Message-ID: <007401c2ca29$8f95e330$e602a8c0@shara.net> References: <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <E18eYVc-0007xq-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20030201140556.02a7e690@helios.earthmagic.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20030202010806.029f7008@helios.earthmagic.org>
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J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson <lonewolf@earthmagic.org> wrote: >> At 15:04 1/02/2003 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a >>> knob? >> >> I'm going out on a limb here, but IIRC (it's been a long time since I >> actually worked with that old hardware) you should be able to ignore the >> BIOS setting completely, as long as you make sure that you have no >> bootable devices installed. The BIOS on the separate SCSI/IDE controller >> should hopefully pick up the boot drive and run with it (if it's told to >> do so). This will be especially true if the reason your motherboard BIOS >> lacks this knob is because it is also lacking an onboard IDE controller >> ;) No, it has a on-board controller. I'll try to disable it in BIOS (not sure it even has THAT) and see what it does. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they can make your life miserable by doing nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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