From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jun 26 13:55:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29288 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29160 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:54:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA20646; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:57:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:57:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Marc Nicholas cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Marc Nicholas wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > All the time I was misunderstanding you - you have the _IDE_ version that > > plugs directly to the IDE interface, while my version is an ISA card which > > installs its own BIOS in order to mimick an IDE drive... Forgive me, it's > > late here and I'm a bit tired... These versions are completely different > > beasts then... > > > > So, this is a bad news for me. But we'll try to use its BIOS to do the > > thing... > > It'll work just fine. Don't worry :-) The BIOS on the card will mask it as > a regular IDE drive to the operating system...unless FreeBSD does anything > perculiar with IDE drives? Yes - it doesn't use the BIOS at all, except when booting... that's why I was so surprised. So, this will not work (as I expected) unless we write a driver. Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message