From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 1 16:48:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAAB37BE73 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 16:48:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA14856; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:48:40 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:48:33 +1100 From: Jonathan Michaels To: Jay Oliver Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have any issues with larger IDE drives? Message-ID: <20000302114826.B14641@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Reply-To: jon@welearn.com.au Mail-Followup-To: Jay Oliver , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000d01bf83ce$0bd84e10$2260e4d0@CHAOS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000d01bf83ce$0bd84e10$2260e4d0@CHAOS>; from Jay Oliver on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:32:36PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org jay think about this fro a moment .. you are asking people who know little or nothing about the basic workings of unix or freebsd, your question is targeted at teh heart of the operating system and how said objects deal with hardware. maybe it it were some sort of standardised hardware like scsi than a guess right out of left filed might come up trumps, but, ide based stuff is a nightmare att eh best of times. these sorts of questions are best asked in freebsd-questions and fro followup move to freebsd-hardware. freebsd-newbies, is fro people learning how to be freebsd users, not seasoned users capable of diagnosing shot in the dark issues with hardware that is less than stable (from an engineering development perspective). regards jonathan -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message