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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
       "NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives" (May  2, 12:28pm)
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Subject: Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives
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> ] 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!

There are also people running FreeBSD on big drives as well.  AFAIK,
there is nothing required to support LBA *once* you get past the initial
install and understand the limitations of the hardware.


Nate