Date: Tue, 2 May 95 12:28:40 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives Message-ID: <9505021828.AA08074@cs.weber.edu>
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] From: "John R. Winans" <winans@ganymede.net> ] Date: 29 Apr 1995 16:48:07 GMT ] Organization: American Information Systems, Inc. ] Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc ] References: 1 ] ] ] nnoiseux@tiac.net (Nicolas Noiseux) wrote: ] > ] > i need a larger hard drive, and am considering conner 1.2g ide... ] > do i need lba support for netbsd(only) drives larger than 528 meg? ] > does netbsd require it? does it handle it? what release of netbsd ] > do i require? ] > thanks for the help! ] ] Apr 27 07:20:05 ns2 /netbsd: wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 325MB 768 cyl, 14 head, 62 sec <ST3390A> ] Apr 27 07:20:05 ns2 /netbsd: wd1 at wdc0 drive 1: 1033MB 2100 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec <WDC AC31000H> ] ] ] Yes it does. I am using 1.0 at patch level 6. And have been able to ] use the larger drives on all my machines... even on an old Gateway whose ] bios groked the drive! (On the gateway, the boot drive was a regular ] 350MB, the second was a 1.2G.) ] ] I have been using the Western Digital Caviar 1.2G drives. I have a ] couple of them and have not had a single problem with them. (Unlike ] my damn SCSI drive timeing out and causing panics once a week.) ] ] --John
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