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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!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!elmira.functional.com!grail From: grail@functional.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Big EIDE disk, old IDE controller Date: 10 Jul 1997 07:11:17 GMT Organization: FIS Technologies Lines: 11 Message-ID: <5q21ul$l7s$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <timleeED2x4G.7AB@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elmira.functional.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970424; i386 FreeBSD 3.0-970618-SNAP] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44194 Timothy J. Lee <nobody@not.for.email> wrote: > Are there any potential problems with using a big ( > 504MB ) > EIDE disk on an old IDE controller with FreeBSD? None at all. I just recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a Quantum Bigfoot 4gig drive (slow as hell). No weird hacks to get it to work at all. Giao Nguyen