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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: large ide drives Date: 15 Nov 1995 23:04:06 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <48do4m$9hf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.90.951113162116.9815B-100000@tsunami.cs.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. -- 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. ;-)