Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:30:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: rhh@ct.picker.com Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org, 199606032009.QAA04299@etinc.com Subject: Re: LBA and Large IDE driver with 2.1R Message-ID: <199606040030.RAA12382@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199606032145.RAA08957@elmer.picker.com> from "Randall Hopper" at Jun 3, 96 05:45:01 pm
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The slice can be > 512 MB if it is not the BOOTING slice/partition > > I have FreeBSD 2.1.0-STABLE running fine on a 1.6 Gig disk, and all of > the FreeBSD slice lives up on the high 815 meg of the disk. I'm running > LBA on an Asus P55TP4XE (dual IDE onboard), and using OS/BS Beta to boot > this FreeBSD slice and all the others on this WD31600 as well as my WD31200 > on wd0. I have had 0 problems -- FreeBSD seems to pick up the translated > geometry and life is good. > > So I think there must be some exceptions to the above statement -- I'd > be interested in the specifics of the exceptions if anyone knows (a section > on LBA might make a good addition to the handbook as well). > > Information on my wd1 config is detailed below if anyone is curious.
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