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Subject: Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives
To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 09:31:21 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199505022234.XAA08462@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at May 2, 95 11:34:15 pm
From: sos@FreeBSD.org (Soren Schmidt)
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In reply to Paul Richards who wrote:
> 
> 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 :-)
> 

Don't bother, I did, they have what you could call "very rudimentary
LBA support", in the commercial sense of the wording...

> I wouldn't bother, I'm sure Soren's driver will arrive soon and then we'll
> have "true" EIDE support too.


Exactly.

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