From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 11:38:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA00178 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 11:38:34 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA00172 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 11:38:32 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id OAA29657; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:30:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:30:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Reply-To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: I know, another EIDE question. To: Network Coordinator cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Network Coordinator wrote: > I tried using the digests, but alas, the digests are not online. the digests are available from majordomo. get the index and then get the particular one you want. for example mail majordomo@freebsd.org index freebsd-questions get freebsd-questions v01.n001 end > > One simple question. A brand new machine with BIOS support for EIDE > drives, installed with a 1.2gig hard drive (EIDE). Will it work right out > of the box, no questions asked with FreeBSD at full capacity or is there > some trickery that needs to be employed? > > I just had the joyous experience of installing a drive like the one above > [850mb] in a Linux machine with a BIOS that didn't support the size > directly, and after all it actually made sense. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Jerry. > > Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346