From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 20 15:48:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA11759 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 May 1995 15:48:01 -0700 Received: from vespucci.iquest.com (root@vespucci.iquest.com [199.170.120.42]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA11753 for ; Sat, 20 May 1995 15:48:00 -0700 Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by vespucci.iquest.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA06439; Sat, 20 May 1995 17:47:49 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 17:47:49 -0500 From: David Kelly Message-Id: <199505202247.RAA06439@vespucci.iquest.com> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, stephen@belgarath.it.com.au Subject: Re: Large IDE drives in ISA machines Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is it possible to use a large (850meg) IDE drive in an ISA machine under > FreeBSD? Its trivial. Just plug it in, partition, install. Keep MS-DOG below 500M. If its not trivial, then I was just darn lucky with my Maxtor 850. Have not had one iota of trouble from the 950412-SNAP. Ok, I lied above. Every couple of days I get a "lnc0: Missed Packet -- no receive buffer". Big Fat Hairy Deal. Probably has something to do with 64M swap and only 8M core. Is there any adantage to buying a "real" EIDE controller? Its funny how on another FreeBSD machine with a $15 IDE controller and a 485M HD, the IDE controller can't figure out when to turn the HD LED on/off right. Linux had no problem. DOS had no problem. FreeBSD & this controller just couldn't get it right. Again, Big Fat Hairy Deal. FreeBSD pushed data thru 3x faster than Linux (w/o EIDE driver) or the AMI HD Setup BIOS routine. David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.