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Subject: I know, another EIDE question.
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I tried using the digests, but alas, the digests are not online.

One simple question. A brand new machine with BIOS support for EIDE 
drives, installed with a 1.2gig hard drive (EIDE). Will it work right out 
of the box, no questions asked with FreeBSD at full capacity or is there 
some trickery that needs to be employed? 

I just had the joyous experience of installing a drive like the one above 
[850mb] in a Linux machine with a BIOS that didn't support the size 
directly, and after all it actually made sense.

Thanks in advance,

-Jerry.