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From: ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu (Frank Ficnar)
Subject: Does FreeBSD support EIDE interfaces?
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 16:36:54 GMT
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Hi,
I've been out of the PC hardware arena for a while but I am in the
process of upgrading my PC so I find myself having to wade through all of this
crap again. If I remember correctly the old IDE interface has been succeeded
by an Enhanced IDE interface which supposedly provides for larger drives and
more of them. Does FreeBSD support this new standard? If not, is
the EIDE interface backwards compatible with the original IDE interface or am
I looking at a big headache in my future?
Now, my second question is not BSD oriented but I thought I'd throw it
out there anyways. I noticed that the ASUS motherboard for a 166 Pentium has
built in Serial/Parallel/Floppy/Hard Drive controllers. Does anybody know if
the controllers are IDE or EIDE?
Thanks for your time. It is greatly appreciated. :-)
Frank Ficnar
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Frank Ficnar - ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu
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