ESDI Interface Support ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050701125521.GF35575 at cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:
>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.

I'm not sure you are 100% correct here.  There is a difference
between MFM/RLL and ESDI and we supported ESDI longer than the
really old stuff.

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