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From: jerryw@cs.umd.edu (Jerry Wieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: EIDE support?  (possible dumb question)
Date: 14 Oct 1996 13:18:47 -0400
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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I'm looking at buying a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro machine; but I'd like to 
forgo SCSI.  Does FreeBSD support any EIDE hard drives?  I'm not sure what
the difference is betwixt IDE and EIDE at all.

Thanks for any pointers, 
-Jerry
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