Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:10:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland <leifn@internet.dk> To: Hans Huebner <hans@artcom.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12GB EIDE Hard Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508100731.265A-100000@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk> In-Reply-To: <m0yWfAp-00000nC@mail.artcom.de>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Hans Huebner wrote: > >In response to your question, any LBA/EIDE controller should drive it. > >You'll need to use FreeBSD-CURRENT (and maybe stable) to get the LBA > >patches so you can acces the entire disk -- otherwise you're limited to > >8GB. > > This is not true. We run our BigFoot on a 2.2.6-RELEASE system with a > slightly updated wd driver. It works without problems (so far). Two > other people are using my patched driver and did not report problems > as well. Would it make sense to put that into the -stable branch? > Not that it'd be usefull for me (my largest drive is an ancient 700Mb 5 1/4"), but if it seems stable, commit it. Or should/could it be put into current forst? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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