From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 4 22:51:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from apomorph.com (apomorph.com [209.134.101.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B99937BD9B for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vwbug@apomorph.com) Received: from localhost (vwbug@localhost) by apomorph.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA00800 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:51:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vwbug@apomorph.com) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:51:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Johnson To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Who Need A Bios? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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