Re: Quick hardware survey - disk INT13 "EDD" services?

From: Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_fer.hr>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:48:04 +0200
Philipp Ost wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Saturday 19 May 2007 11:39:53 am Ivan Voras wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a machine that doesn't support EDD / packet
>>> interface / "Extended INT13" interface on its hard drive(s) and is
>>> capable of running 7-CURRENT? (486 and early Pentium class machines?)

> I have an IBM Personal Computer 330-450DX2 which currently has NetBSD
> 2.0.2 installed. I don't know the exact copyright date of the BIOS, but
> I can power the machine up again if needed ;-)
> The hard drives are Western Digital Caviar 2600 (1.5GiB), but I also
> have two Western Digital Caviar 1365 (365MiB) it those are better suited
> for the task...

> For which purposes do you need the machine?

I started this thread way back when I hoped I may have the time to add
support for GPT booting myself, with the purpose of trying to simplify
the loader and discard the support for old non-EDD BIOS-es.

Won't happen now, but thanks for the report - maybe someone else can use
the information.


Received on Fri Jul 13 2007 - 12:48:12 UTC

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