From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 15:36:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA19103 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 15:36:17 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA19096 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 15:36:02 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA08462; Tue, 2 May 1995 23:34:16 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199505022234.XAA08462@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 23:34:15 +0100 (BST) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505022229.PAA09546@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 2, 95 03:29:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 588 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > > > I don't think we do, not in the sense that NetBSD does. EIDE and LBA just > > happens to work with us, they've made some progress in true EIDE support > > in their wd driver. > > There is no such thing as "true EIDE support". > > I will look at it nontheless :-) I wouldn't bother, I'm sure Soren's driver will arrive soon and then we'll have "true" EIDE support too. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.isl.cf.ac.uk/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)