From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 23 08:54:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22123 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22116; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:54:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17598; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:49:16 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199804231549.RAA17598@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Large IDE drive support added In-Reply-To: <19980423082202P.thomma@baynetworks.com> from Tamiji Homma at "Apr 23, 98 08:22:02 am" To: thomma@BayNetworks.COM (Tamiji Homma) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:49:16 +0200 (MEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message