Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:15:10 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: ALVA <alva@freewwweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd support of EIDE drives Message-ID: <20000113111510.A22633@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <v04003a00b4a3ae85c256@[63.23.7.89]>; from alva@freewwweb.com on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:33:36AM -0800 References: <v04003a00b4a3ae85c256@[63.23.7.89]>
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[moved to -questions where it belonged] On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:33:36AM -0800, ALVA wrote: > hi, I saw the spects of freebsd supported hardware and I found that > there's > no mention of freebsd supporting EIDE drives, it supports IDE all > right. > but I'm on a dell dimension xps p200 wich supports eide only > here are the spects of the puter in case you want to look at them. > > http://support.dell.com/docs/dta/_trmntor/00000005.htm They are supported. The only real gotcha is that drives greater then 27GB may require all partitions to be smaller then ~27GB under 3.x due to a bug that is though to reside in the wd driver. -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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