Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:12:52 +1100 From: "J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson" <lonewolf@earthmagic.org> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030202010806.029f7008@helios.earthmagic.org> In-Reply-To: <00c801c2c9fa$c65b62c0$e602a8c0@shara.net> References: <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <E18eYVc-0007xq-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20030201140556.02a7e690@helios.earthmagic.org>
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At 15:04 1/02/2003 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
>What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a
>knob?
I'm going out on a limb here, but IIRC (it's been a long time since I
actually worked with that old hardware) you should be able to ignore the
BIOS setting completely, as long as you make sure that you have no bootable
devices installed. The BIOS on the separate SCSI/IDE controller should
hopefully pick up the boot drive and run with it (if it's told to do so).
This will be especially true if the reason your motherboard BIOS lacks this
knob is because it is also lacking an onboard IDE controller ;)
I'm not sure how helpful that really was... I guess the best way to find
out is to try, after all!
Cheers,
/Johny
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