From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 4 14:24:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28596 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28485 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24011; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:23:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: perl cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12GB EIDE Hard Drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 May 1998, perl wrote: > Hi, I was wondering which disk controlers supported > 8.4GB hard drives. > I have a 12GB Quantum and would like to use it with FreeBSD. Do I need to > purchase a controler card or can freebsd handle 12GB eide drives without > any specific hardware ? Yuck. I hate to see the performance numbers on this drive :( I'd use a 3x4GB array myself. In response to your question, any LBA/EIDE controller should drive it. You'll need to use FreeBSD-CURRENT (and maybe stable) to get the LBA patches so you can acces the entire disk -- otherwise you're limited to 8GB. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message