Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:23:04 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> To: Steve Price <steve@havk.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 160GB Maxtor drives Message-ID: <20020124082304.GA74833@myhakas.estpak.ee> In-Reply-To: <20020122112309.A816@bsd.havk.org> References: <20020122112309.A816@bsd.havk.org>
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:23:09AM -0600, Steve Price <steve@havk.org> wrote: > Does anyone know of any gotchas with using an IDE drive that is > 160GB in size on FreeBSD? A Linux user here in town is asking > about using one of these drives and I'd love more than anything > to tell him that "you might be able to do it in Linux if you can > find someone with some experimental patches but FreeBSD has > supported this in the last N stable releases. I'd be glad to > burn a copy of the discs and help you get the box setup". The problems will arise probably from ATA controller support, not from the 48-bit addressing support, which is considered stable. As Søren pointed out some days ago, the Promise ATA-133 controller support is mostly untested. Don't know about any others. -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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