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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: large ide drives Date: 17 Nov 1995 07:20:16 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <48hd3g$i3@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.90.951113162116.9815B-100000@tsunami.cs.odu.edu> <48do4m$9hf@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <48do4m$9hf@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de says... > >Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> wrote: > >>Gotta quick question. The 1.1.15 and 2.0 release of freebsd would use a >>large hd in normal mode without question or comment...with the 2.0.5 >>release, I have had to switch to LBA mode to get freebsd to use the >>entire drive...it`s kind of annoying...has this been fixed for 2.1? > >Certainly not. Nobody volunteers to deal with IDE drives. > >Interesting that you had to use LBA anyway, since FreeBSD could access >the driver beyond the BIOS limitations all the time. I've installed 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1snap's on large IDE drives in untranslated mode. Make sure the tell FreeBSD the drives real geometry. The 2.0.5 install sorta assumes a DOS system. Tom