Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:22:02 -0700 From: Tamiji Homma <thomma@BayNetworks.COM> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: Large IDE drive support added Message-ID: <19980423082202P.thomma@baynetworks.com>
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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
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