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Subject: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives
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] From: "John R. Winans" <winans@ganymede.net>
] Date: 29 Apr 1995 16:48:07 GMT
] Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
] Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc 
] References: 1 
] 
] 
] nnoiseux@tiac.net (Nicolas Noiseux) wrote:
] >
] > i need a larger hard drive, and am considering conner 1.2g ide...
] > do i need lba support for netbsd(only) drives larger than 528 meg?
] > does netbsd require it? does it handle it? what release of netbsd
] > do i require?
] > thanks for the help!
] 
] Apr 27 07:20:05 ns2 /netbsd: wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 325MB 768 cyl, 14 head, 62 sec <ST3390A>
] Apr 27 07:20:05 ns2 /netbsd: wd1 at wdc0 drive 1: 1033MB 2100 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec <WDC AC31000H>
] 
] 
] Yes it does.  I am using 1.0 at patch level 6.  And have been able to
] use the larger drives on all my machines... even on an old Gateway whose
] bios groked the drive!  (On the gateway, the boot drive was a regular
] 350MB, the second was a 1.2G.)
] 
] I have been using the Western Digital Caviar 1.2G drives.  I have a
] couple of them and have not had a single problem with them.  (Unlike 
] my damn SCSI drive timeing out and causing panics once a week.)
] 
] --John