Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 01:38:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: John Margaritis <ioannis@widow.aracnet.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IDE drives and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970313013743.1205L-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <m0w52Kt-0006EhC@widow.aracnet.net>
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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, John Margaritis wrote: > Can FreeBSD be installed on an IDE hard drive that is setup with LBA > goemetry? > > I am a computer technician, and I noticed that in the BIOS setup > (primarily the Award BIOS), it has a message at the bottom saying: > > "Hard drive should be set to 'normal' for UNIX " > > as opposed to large, or LBA, in the HDD setup section. Whatever it's on, leave it there. This impacts DOS and the boot stage of FreeBSD; after it gets going, that code is long gone. > Also, I'm considering using my older quantum fireball SCSI HD for > my FBSD system. Are there any advantages to this (performance, > speed)? Depending on the speed of the fireball, you should see some pretty good performance over IDE if this is doing anything more than workstation work. 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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