ESDI Interface Support ?

[Bernd Walter]

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.

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