ESDI Interface Support ?

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.

I lost my ESDI disks when wd driver was removed.
Maybe there were other drivers for e.g. EISA cards.

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