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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.thepoint.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support EIDE interfaces? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4nfrki$i8@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <DrGGqM.5A9@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 18:20:02 GMT Lines: 30 In article <DrGGqM.5A9@ecf.toronto.edu>, Frank Ficnar <ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote: >Hi, > > I've been out of the PC hardware arena for a while but I am in the >process of upgrading my PC so I find myself having to wade through all of this >crap again. If I remember correctly the old IDE interface has been succeeded >by an Enhanced IDE interface which supposedly provides for larger drives and >more of them. Does FreeBSD support this new standard? If not, is >the EIDE interface backwards compatible with the original IDE interface or am >I looking at a big headache in my future? > The EIDE disk drives work fine with FreeBSD, and you generally get significant performance benefits. The IDE CDROM code is green, and the IDE tape code is AFAIK non-existent. I personally use 540MByte, 1.6GByte and 2.5GByte EIDE drives on my ASUS TP4N MB, with performance of 2MBytes/sec up to 9MBytes per second depending on drive, etc... > > Now, my second question is not BSD oriented but I thought I'd throw it >out there anyways. I noticed that the ASUS motherboard for a 166 Pentium has >built in Serial/Parallel/Floppy/Hard Drive controllers. Does anybody know if >the controllers are IDE or EIDE? > IDE interface on the ASUS motherboard is EIDE, and the motherboard is really nice. It appears to be quite compatible with FreeBSD. John