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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.dca.gov.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!ns1.tstt.net.tt!nobody From: feisal@tstt.net.tt Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE drives greater than 500 MB. Date: 28 Mar 1996 22:24:26 -0400 Organization: Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Lines: 10 Sender: feisal@ns1.tstt.net.tt Message-ID: <4jfhkq$6qs@ns1.tstt.net.tt> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns1.tstt.net.tt >What is the current status of LBA. Do any of the versions of Freebsd >(2.0, 2.0.5, or 2.10) support IDE hard drives greater than 540 MB? If >so, how does not set this up? > (snip) I have a Compaq Presario 850, and I recently put in a Seagate 815MB ST5851A with V2.1 without a single problem. On bootup FreeBSD recognized the drive and all I had to do was partition it! -Feisal