Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 11:59:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives Message-ID: <199505021859.LAA08667@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199505021852.MAA07756@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 2, 95 12:52:56 pm
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> > ] 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! > > There are also people running FreeBSD on big drives as well. AFAIK, > there is nothing required to support LBA *once* you get past the initial > install and understand the limitations of the hardware. And there seems to be too little gained to even bother until it becomes widespread... -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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