From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 11:43:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA12057 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 11:43:05 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA12051 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 11:43:04 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA08565; Tue, 2 May 1995 11:42:59 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199505021842.LAA08565@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 11:42:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505021828.AA08074@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 2, 95 12:28:40 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1462 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk So do we, and have done for a long time... > ] From: "John R. Winans" > ] 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 > ] Apr 27 07:20:05 ns2 /netbsd: wd1 at wdc0 drive 1: 1033MB 2100 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec > ] > ] > ] 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 > -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'