Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 23:57:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "L. Floyd" <lfloyd@sonic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility with Ultra IDE drives? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980523235634.9142b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3563AA6F.65B552D6@sonic.net>
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On Wed, 20 May 1998, L. Floyd wrote: > It seems like the Ultra IDE format is becoming standard with IDE > drives. How does FreeBSD 2.2.5 work with Ultra IDE? Will I need to use > logical block addressing to keep the FreeBSD boot sector within the > first 1024 cylinders? (I'll be sharing this drive with Win95 and expect > to have Win95 occupy the disk well beyond the "physical" 1024 > cylinder.) Does FreeBSD know how to deal with Ultra DMA? 2.2.5 doesn't, so you get standard old IDE without any UltraDMA improvement. -CURRENT can grok UltraDMA and can give you the (supposed) performance boost. > The reason I ask is that I couldn't get FreeBSD to install properly on a > Maxtor 4.3 gbyte Ultra IDE disk. I have since returned that disk for a > refund (albeit with a steep "restocking" fee). I'm planning on getting > a Western Digital Drive of the same size, but it will likely be Ultra > IDE as well. I just want to make sure I'm not heading down the same > road again. I think we establshed that the Maxtor drive, well, sucks. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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