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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
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>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