From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 31 14:27:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18142 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:27:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18135 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:27:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA17481; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:29:50 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:29:50 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601312229.PAA17481@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Gary Palmer Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EIDE controllers In-Reply-To: <20770.823120882@westhill.cdrom.com> References: <20770.823120882@westhill.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I'm looking for an EIDE controller which will work with FreeBSD and > allow >>500MB drives to be used in a multi-OS boot situation. A > Promise 2300+ card doesn't work :-( Any IDE/EIDE controller will work, as *long* as you make sure FreeBSD's root partition starts/end below the 512MB mark. I'm running a 1Gig EIDE controller in the Asus box next to me and it works great, as long as I don't use the EIDE features (FreeBSD doesn't support them anyways). Nate