From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 01:11:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13061 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 01:11:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darla.swimsuit.internet.dk (pm21-6.image.dk [194.234.169.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13056 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 01:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@internet.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darla.swimsuit.internet.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA00305; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:10:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@internet.dk) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:10:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland X-Sender: leifn@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk To: Hans Huebner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12GB EIDE Hard Drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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