Den Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:21:56 +0100 skrev Martin Toft <m...@martintoft.dk>:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:24:29AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > http://www.eskk.nu/gallery/?album=/bios/&picture=IMAG0115.jpg&fullsize=0 > > > > Please advise me on what you think would be the best setting. > > Keeping in mind that I do not want to corrupt data on the hard > > drive. > > A year ago I used a Dell E6400 for work, and it seems like your E6500 > has the same hard drive options. As far as I remember, I was able to > install OpenBSD 4.7 (-ish, a snapshot at the time) on its hard drive > when it was set to use AHCI. However, in AHCI-mode the cdrom drive > wasn't found. Changing from IRRT to AHCI and trying a install will > probably corrupt your data. > > I gave up running OpenBSD on the laptop, as there was no X Video > Extension support for its NVIDIA graphics... Even a somewhat mighty > Core 2 Duo isn't enough for software scaling. > > Martin I'm running 4.8 on a E6500 and my cd are working just fine but I'm using the AHCI mode! If you change i strongly recommends to backup all the data (but you can skip the Win7 data, you shouldn't use that any way;-))! Br/Anders
