Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:03:37 -0400 From: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT: current hard disks & old EIDE controllers? Message-ID: <20010615120337.C28619@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
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This is slightly offtopic, but I figure a lot of you people know PCs well. I'm totally out of the loop in the PC world, and the last machine I bought was a P75 (which I still use) - the time has come to get a new hard disk, but I don't know what all these technologies are. I don't know much about current trends, but all the drives I see are UDMA or ATA66. I know that (E)IDE is backwards compatible with the original ATA, so that would suggest that this ATA66 stuff is as well, but I really don't know. Are current IDE-derived drives compatible with old EIDE controllers? Will my BIOS freak out or does it matter? Are there any issues with running FreeBSD in a system like this? thanks to any and all responses -- Steve Tremblett Cisco Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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