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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:37:01 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help installing FreeBSD
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adrian esquivel wrote:
> Sorry for the last message...
> Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it
> was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a
> 40-conductor IDE cable. So this means that I need to change it for an 
> UDMA
> (80 conductor)?? Oh, and when I change it, do I need to configure 
> something,
> maybe on the BIOS or something... just asking
No. CD drives are UDMA-33 compatible only, so 40-pin cables will 
suffice. If you want something faster than UDMA-33 with your hard 
drive(s) though (assuming you have EIDE hard drives), you should connect 
it/them with an 80-pin cable.

Also, your BIOS should have the CD drive set to boot before the hard 
drive(s).
-Garrett



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