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Subject: Re: LBA and Large IDE driver with 2.1R
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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:30:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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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.