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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!ns2.foothill.net!not-for-mail From: obiwan@zeppelin.net (Josh Howard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anything to watch out for re: > 2.1gig EIDE? Date: 2 Apr 1997 08:21:49 GMT Organization: Foothill Net Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5ht4ut$2ch$2@ns2.foothill.net> References: <3341C3DB.7838@ultranet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kashmir.foothill.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38269 In article <3341C3DB.7838@ultranet.com>, "Michael C. Cambria" <cambria@ultranet.com> writes: > Hi, > > Is there anything to watch out for when using an EIDE disk > which has greater than 2.1 gig (greater than 4096 cyls)? > > I'm using a P/I P55TP4XE with Award Bios 0202 (4.51PG). > This BIOS says I can use up to 8GB EIDE disks via the > builtin controller on the MB. I can also boot of the CDROM. > The disk (Western Digital 22100) auto-detects fine, and > is set to LBA (as is the 1gig EIDE that works today.) > I also have a PCI 2940 and a 1 gig Seagate disk off it as > well as a 4x CDROM. (I bought SCSI only til I got married!) > > Thanks for any suggestions, pointers etc. > > MikeC I don't think anything extra is neccesary, I have a 22100 that works just fine: wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <WDC AC22100H> wd1: 2014MB (4124736 sectors), 4092 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S Although it does seem to be a couple cylinders shy of 4096, I've seen larger drives work fine. One problem I did have was when I made a 1gig partition, I had quite a few errors, but then again, I mounted a 3.1 gig partition on another machine without a prob. I shrunk them all down to less than that, and they work fine. -- Josh Howard