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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ub!csn!qwerty.fsl.noaa.gov!woody.fsl.noaa.gov!kelly From: kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 and EIDE CDROM/Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM Message-ID: <1994Dec13.183657.2614@fsl.noaa.gov> Sender: news@fsl.noaa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory References: <ngl1.20.2EECE4A4@psu.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 18:36:57 GMT Lines: 36 In article <ngl1.20.2EECE4A4@psu.edu>, Nicolas Leshock <ngl1@psu.edu> wrote: >I am buying a P5-90 from Micron right after the holidays and I would like to >avoid paying the SCSI premium ($$$ constraints) for a HD and CDROM. I'm running FreeBSD on a Micron P5 machine right now. I also wanted to avoid the SCSI premium for monetary reasons and went with their inexpensive 1GB IDE option. FreeBSD makes a GREAT operating system on this platform. >but what about EIDE CDROM? Hmm, perhaps Micron recently changed their machine structure. Mine came with a Mitsumi CD-ROM and controller card. It works fine with FreeBSD. >Is the Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM supported under FreeBSD? If it's the *older* PCI card, then you're okay (the one with the S3-Vision-864 chip: check the label ON THE CHIP, not the manual). I've got one and it works fine. But, according to comp.windows.x.i386unix, Diamond has a second version of the Stealth 64 DRAM that uses the Tiro (?) 764 chip. That one does not work at all with XFree86 (they're working on it, though). You might want to take advantage of your sales rep here and ask for the older one. The net's consensus is that Diamond's products and support are crap and avoid them if you can. Finally, one other important note: if your drive capacity is more than 525MB, the Phoenix BIOS will automatically use LBA mapping. This isn't a problem unless you want to boot multiple OS's using the FreeBSD boot manager, which can't handle LBA. The way to turn LBA off is to lie to the BIOS and say your drive has less cylinders than it really does to get the capacity below 525MB. --k