From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 23 23:57:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25615 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 23:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25577 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 23:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA09446; Sat, 23 May 1998 23:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 23:57:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "L. Floyd" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility with Ultra IDE drives? In-Reply-To: <3563AA6F.65B552D6@sonic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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