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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

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