Quick hardware survey - disk INT13 "EDD" services?

[Philipp Ost]

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?)
> 
> 
> Specifically, you'd have to have a BIOS with a copyright date older than 1995.
> 

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...


I had problems installing FreeBSD on this machine back in 2005 (can't 
rememeber if it was low memory (32MiB) or "stupid" hard disk layout), 
but I can try it again as I have a little more experience now :-)

For which purposes do you need the machine?


HTH,
Philipp
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