Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:09:21 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: current hard disks & old EIDE controllers? Message-ID: <3B303E11.DC643817@i-clue.de> References: <20010615120337.C28619@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
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Steve Tremblett schrieb: > > 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? Theoretically, yes. > Will my BIOS freak out or does it matter? Unfortunately, yes- > Are there any issues with running FreeBSD in a system like this? If your system is that old, you may think about upgrading to a recent 4.x versions first: there where bugs in the wd driver triggerd by big drives. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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