From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 1 11:39:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4512037B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:39:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iskon.hr (mail.iskon.hr [213.191.128.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1ED743E4A for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:39:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: (qmail 8873 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 20:38:50 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO flatline) (213.191.147.30) by mail.iskon.hr with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 20:38:50 +0100 Message-ID: <007401c2ca29$8f95e330$e602a8c0@shara.net> From: "Ivan Voras" To: References: <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <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> Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:38:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson 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