From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 9 12:13:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA29604 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 12:13:47 -0700 Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA29598 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 12:13:45 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA27574 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 12:12:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199504091912.MAA27574@precipice.shockwave.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: What support do we have for BIG IDE drives? Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 12:12:52 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need to build up a tiny cheap box with the largest IDE drive or drives that I can find (unless I can find a SCSI controller that is dirt cheap). The idea here is that this box doesn't need to be fast in the slightest, but I want as much disk capacity as I can throw on it. Unfortunately, I'm a wd moron, since I hate non-SCSI equipment. I know we don't support the enhanced functionality modes in EIDE, but I'm completely obtuse about the differences between IDE and EIDE. Does this mean that we do/do not support drives that have more than 1023 cylinders? If someone has a quick answer, I'd like to here from you, as I've got two days to get this damn thing built so we can install it in the remote location. Paul