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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
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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
>