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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: eddy@girtab.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE/EIDE Date: 9 Nov 1995 15:04:18 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 31 Sender: eddy@girtab.usc.edu Message-ID: <47u1di$bgs@girtab.usc.edu> References: <47ftp2$8n0@ns1.tstt.net.tt> <47jcom$nl1@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: ><feisal@tstt.net.tt> wrote: >>I have a Compaq Presario 850 (486/50 with 16M) with a Seagate 420 drive. >>I am going to purchase another 540 drive to put FreeBSD. However the dealer >>is suggesting a larger drive. Can FreeBSD use a larger IDE drive without >>my purchasing an EIDE controller? >FreeBSD doesn't specifically support EIDE controllers at all. I think >it can use more than 504 MB on IDE (but you have to allocate the root >file system below `cylinder' 1024), since it's not bound to the >crippled BIOS interface except for booting. >-- >cheers, J"org >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) i just bought a maxtor 1G hd and ended up having to buy an EIDE controllor, because the controllor on the MB would not work (i had the 'no operating system problem'. After installing the EIDE controllor, the system then began to work with no modification. i did however ensure that i installed / below 1024. -- - rusty eddy@isi.edu