From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 23 08:24:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15963 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp-gw.BayNetworks.COM (ns1.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15941; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomma@BayNetworks.COM) Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM ([134.177.1.107]) by smtp-gw.BayNetworks.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02490; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com (fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com [134.177.110.46]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA26639; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carrera.engwest ([134.177.160.237]) by fedex.engwest.baynetworks.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) Received: from localhost by carrera.engwest (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA02000; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:22:02 -0700 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: Large IDE drive support added X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92 on Emacs 19.28 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19980423082202P.thomma@baynetworks.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:22:02 -0700 From: Tamiji Homma X-Dispatcher: imput version 971024 Lines: 39 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Soren, Soren> I've just added support for LBA mode addressing to the wd driver. Soren> I works on "dangerously dedicated" drives, I'm not so certain on Soren> fdisk partitioned drives YMMW... Soren> Soren> Enjoy, and let me know the results I just picked up Maxtor DiamondMax 11.5G drive last night at Fry's. I would like to try LBA mode on the drive. If I install say, SNAP CD, do I need your LBA supported driver (ie: boot floopy disk) to complete initial installation? I tried 980222 SNAP last night, I can not get passed 8GB limit (16383/16/63) with it. When the board(FIC PA-2007) shows correct disk geometry (22332/16/63) but when FreeBSD comes up saying 16383/16/63 and then it won't let me set new geometry... :( I also tried (1401/255/63) LBA mode but the same result. I guess I would have to have a complete boot kit set (fdisk, disklabel etc) with your driver in the kernel. By the way, the driver is really fast! It's actually faster than my 7200rpm SCSI x 2 ccd drive. I would love to utilize all the space available not just first 8GB :) I run -current(a few days old) on other machine. I could use the machine to install -current on 11.5G drive. I tried that last night but I could not build release directory with various compile errors... Any suggestion? Thanks Tammy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message