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From: klee@imagen.com (Kanghoon Lee)
Subject: Re: Enhanced IDE and BSD
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Date:  8 Aug 94 15:34:08 GMT
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chiuc@volga.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (C.Y. Chiu) writes:

>Hi, 
>	I am just wondering if FreeBSD can take advantage of EIDE, without 
>any aid of new BIOS or EIDE floppy controller.  Will FreeBSD be able to see
>the sectors/cylinders after 528MB(or something like that)?

>Thanks for all infos

I thought it only applies to stupid DOS, because NetBSD can access 1.7 Gig IDE 
without any problem.