Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:39:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EIDE drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970121113911.24610G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32E036B0.41C67EA6@servtech.com>
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jen and Luke wrote: > Hi I'm running 2.2-ALPHA and recently upgraded most of my computer, i > was reading through the LINT kernel config file, and it says 'EIDE is > not supported' . After lurking on the list, seeing people with 540M+ ide > drives, i get the impression this is not the case. Can i actually use > eide drives under FreeBSD ? and if so , someone should change that line > in the LINT file ( all my hardware upgrade decisions were based on > comments in the file :) There is no *explicit* support for these drives (ie, 32 bit access), but they do work as regular IDE drives. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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