Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:51:38 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: souchu@firtech.lri.fr Subject: Re: EIDE 2300+ Promise Message-ID: <199602132251.XAA06334@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602131758.KAA23407@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 13, 96 10:58:39 am
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > Because the FreeBSD bootblocks don't understand LBA ... The FreeBSD bootblocks do understand LBA, if the BIOS understands it. The FreeBSD kernel doesn't understand LBA, but has no problems to speak to ST-506-interfaced drives up to j@uriah 683% echo '(2^16*16*255*512)/2^30' | bc 127 gigabytes, or at least j@uriah 684% echo '(2^16*16*63*512)/2^30' | bc 31 gigabytes if the drive is also to be used by the BIOS. Obviously, only the first 1024 ficticuous cylinders of such a drive will be addressable by the BIOS. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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