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From: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg  x7-4534)
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Subject: big IDE disks
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> 
> Is there some version of FreeBSD that supports big IDE disks (1 GB) ?
> Thanks,
> Mario
> 

Yes.  I'm running 4/12 SNAP with a 1.2 G Western Digital IDE drive
I just got last weekend.   I used the FreeBSD 4/12 installation to
fdisk the drive.  I put 100M in the first partition for MSDOS and 
used the rest for FreeBSD.  I've never had much luck using large 
drives in DOS because the DOS fdisk program is a dog.  The one in
the FreeBSD install is very clean.  Someone should port it to dos. ;)

Works great from DOS or BSD.  The 1st 100 M DOS partition is so I 
could install OS-BS as a boot selector and play Doom.  

Derek Laufenberg
laufen@sol.med.ge.com