From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 11:15:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F97B14CF1; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27538; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:15:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:15:10 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: ALVA Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd support of EIDE drives Message-ID: <20000113111510.A22633@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from alva@freewwweb.com on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:33:36AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moved to -questions where it belonged] On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:33:36AM -0800, ALVA wrote: > hi, I saw the spects of freebsd supported hardware and I found that > there's > no mention of freebsd supporting EIDE drives, it supports IDE all > right. > but I'm on a dell dimension xps p200 wich supports eide only > here are the spects of the puter in case you want to look at them. > > http://support.dell.com/docs/dta/_trmntor/00000005.htm They are supported. The only real gotcha is that drives greater then 27GB may require all partitions to be smaller then ~27GB under 3.x due to a bug that is though to reside in the wd driver. -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message