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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:19:50 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <9505021911.AA08387@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 2, 95 01:11:11 pm
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> > So do we, and have done for a long time...
> > 
> 
> I was under the impression that there were problems using EIDE drives
> under FreeBSD.
> 
> Are you saying that there is no problem?

There are no problems.

The problems are with BIOS, >1024cyl geometry estimation for writing
MBR's.

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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'