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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD/i386 and IDE block mode
Date: 18 May 1995 10:12:15 +0200
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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bouyer@ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
>In article <3p72h9$384@news.irisa.fr>, leconte@irisa.fr (Thierry Leconte) writes:
>>
>> Does NetBSD is able to use the IDE disks in block mode ?
>When probing ide disks -current prints:
>>wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 240MB, 895 cyl, 10 head, 55 sec, 512 bytes/sec <Conner Peri
>pherals 240MB - CP30254>
>>wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, chs addressing
That means it's using cyl/head/sector addressing. I can't give the
output of my own machine at the moment (because it's about 1500km
away from me), but I have NetBSD-current running on it and using
'lba adressing' on a maxtor 540 Mb disk, I assume that is what Thierry
meant.
- Frank
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