On Apr 23, 2011, at 5:19 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> mcd and scd are ISA-only devices ... They were important for the >> 386 (now not supported) and 486 machines. Since the 486 machines >> in question maxed out at 32MB, and 8.x has trouble running in 32MB >> on x86, I'm guessing there aren't too many 486 SX/DX machines >> running 8.x. > > 486 were the last for which ISA was the primary bus, but ISA was > still present (bridged from PCI) on most Pentium systems and common > at least as recently as Pentium-II. (I don't have a disassembled > P-III handy to check whether it has an ISA slot.)
Most Pentium II and newer systems had IDE connectors on the motherboard. Many of the Pentium I ones did too. Only if you didn't have IDE connectors on mobo would you be likely to consider one of these CD's. Also, I think they topped out at 4x or 8x speed since they had a custom interface. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
