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From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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To: Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria <rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br>
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Subject: Re: Does BSD support LBA mode?
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Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria wrote:
> 
> Randall Hopper was saying that,
> ]  >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
> ]
> ]
> 
>   I have a question about LBA..
> 
>   I've heard that LBA works fine for HDs < 2Gbytes. But the vendors of
>  >2Gbytes drives says that they work with LBA.
> 
>   Will those drives ( >2Gbytes, like 2.5G or 3.1G) work with FreeBSD, or
> they use those "DiskManager" drivers to work with DOS/Windows.:(
> 
>   Has anyone used one of those?
> 

FreeBSD in itself has no problems with large drives!
Dos/Windows does!

-Enjoy
Gary
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