Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:51:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Johnson <vwbug@apomorph.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Who Need A Bios? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004050040530.789-100000@apomorph.com>
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I was looking for any information about IDE to SCSI emulation using FreeBSD (which seems to be non-existent--let me know if I'm wrong) and I noticed several postings to this list talking about BIOS problems causing and IDE drive to be identified incorrectly. If I am not mistake, FreeBSD (and other UNIX flavors) does not give a crap about what your BIOS says about your hard disk. I have an old Gateway 486/33 with a BIOS that doesn't recognize any hard disks over 524MB (or somewhere there abouts). I have FreeBSD up and running on it with a 3.2GB drive. I have told the BIOS that is a 162MB drive, but FreeBSD recogizes my drive as full 3.2GB and everything works like a champ. Any questions, comments, additions, or complaints? Please respond directly to my email address as well as the list as I am not a subscriber to this list.... --Michael Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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