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#! rnews 2080 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cdc2.cdc.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anything to watch out for re: > 2.1gig EIDE? Date: 2 Apr 1997 23:09:42 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 39 Message-ID: <01bc3fbb$24ffa820$7c01a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <3341C3DB.7838@ultranet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunnet.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38328 Well, let's ask my server: Apr 1 11:14:15 www2 /kernel: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa Apr 1 11:14:15 www2 /kernel: fdc0: NEC 72065B Apr 1 11:14:15 www2 /kernel: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in Apr 1 11:14:15 www2 /kernel: wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0x80ff on isa Apr 1 11:14:15 www2 /kernel: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200A>, mu lti-block-16 Apr 1 11:14:16 www2 /kernel: wd0: 3067MB (6281856 sectors), 6232 cyls, 16 heads , 63 S/T, 512 B/S Apr 1 11:14:16 www2 /kernel: aic0 at 0x340-0x35f irq 11 on isa Well, it looks OK to me. ;-) Ted Michael C. Cambria <cambria@ultranet.com> wrote in article <3341C3DB.7838@ultranet.com>... > 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 >