Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:08:54 -0300 (EST) From: Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria <rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does BSD support LBA mode? Message-ID: <199608121408.LAA01714@tijuca.ravel.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199608101544.LAA12606@elmer.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Aug 10, 96 11:44:18 am"
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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?
Rodolfo H G Faria
<rodolfo@ravel.ufrj.br>
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