From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 0:23: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from newmx.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F9937B402 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 00:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from myhakas.estpak.ee (myhakas.estpak.ee [194.126.115.54]) by newmx.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D2D960DB; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:22:31 +0200 (EET) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by myhakas.estpak.ee (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0O8N4w74883; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:23:04 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:23:04 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Steve Price Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 160GB Maxtor drives Message-ID: <20020124082304.GA74833@myhakas.estpak.ee> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <20020122112309.A816@bsd.havk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020122112309.A816@bsd.havk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i-ja.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:23:09AM -0600, Steve Price 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