On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:44:45PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <000601c57d7c$6898aca0$1700a8c0_at_radyk>, "Dimitur Ivanav Dimitrov" wr > ites: > >Hi, > >I am a new in FreeBSD and have a little problem. My old computer's BIOS = > >support only ESDI hard disks on ISA slot. I wonder if there is a version = > >of FreeBSD which supports both ESDI and IDE and where can I get it from? > > You need a pretty old FreeBSD version for that. FreeBSD 5.x or later > will not support it, FreeBSD 4.x may, but I'm not sure. 3.x is the last FreeBSD supporting direct attached MFM/RLL/ESDI disks. Likely a computer that has no BIOS support for ata disks will have lots of other shortcomings too. But I'm surprised by this statement as well - an IDE disk with an ISA adapter should be backward compatible to MFM/RLL/ESDI controller. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd_at_bwct.de info_at_bwct.deReceived on Fri Jul 01 2005 - 10:56:09 UTC
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