Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:49:16 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: thomma@BayNetworks.COM (Tamiji Homma) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large IDE drive support added Message-ID: <199804231549.RAA17598@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19980423082202P.thomma@baynetworks.com> from Tamiji Homma at "Apr 23, 98 08:22:02 am"
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In reply to Tamiji Homma who wrote:
> 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?
You need to download one of the latests SNAP's to get this working
on a machine with only the Maxtor drive...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
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