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Date:      Sat, 10 Aug 1996 11:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
To:        chu@ipoline.com (Frank Chu)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does BSD support LBA mode?
Message-ID:  <199608101544.LAA12606@elmer.picker.com>
In-Reply-To: <320CA50B.2FDE@ipoline.com> from "Frank Chu" at Aug 10, 96 11:04:43 am

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 >Hi I just purchased a copy of FreeBSD on CD and found it won't boot with 
 >my computer.  My question is: does FreeBSD support harddisk LBA mode? I 
 >tried to install it with a 270MB and a 800MB hd and both won't boot.  If 
 >BSD really doesn't support LBA mode what should I do? Without LBA my 
 >computer won't see harddisk >528 MB.

I can confirm that FreeBSD works fine with BIOS LBA.  I have two versions
of FreeBSD installed on my machine.  One at the back of a 1.2 Gig EIDE
disk, and one at the end of a 1.6Gig EIDE disk.  The second install, by the
way, is completely above 528MB.  Been running this setup for over a year
without any problems.

Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com






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