From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 01:39:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA17168 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 01:39:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA17163 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 01:39:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA01371; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 01:38:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 01:38:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: John Margaritis cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IDE drives and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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