From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 11:59:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA12715 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 11:59:37 -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 LAA12709 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 11:59:36 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA08667; Tue, 2 May 1995 11:59:07 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199505021859.LAA08667@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 11:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505021852.MAA07756@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 2, 95 12:52:56 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 659 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > ] 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. And there seems to be too little gained to even bother until it becomes widespread... -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'