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From: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD support EIDE HD ???
Date: 12 Sep 1995 15:08:31 GMT
Organization: Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa
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In article <432hs5$9pa@spectre.star.harc.edu>, gumby@guyton.com (Dave Guyton) writes:
|> jarekb@ire.pw.edu.pl (Jaroslaw Bazydlo) wrote:
|> 
|> >Is it support EIDE HD ??? I've got problems with labelling a 1.2G disk,
|> >and if FreeBSD does support EIDE then it means that i'am doing something
|> >wrong.
|> 
|> >Waiting for answer..
|> 
|> Yes, it supports EIDE.  I currently have it running on a Conner 1.2
|> gig using a VESA EIDE controller.  I had to make the root partition

To clarify: EIDE is a superset of IDE, and probably refers to the way
the disk can be accesses (DMA vs programmed IO). It has little (or
probably nothing) to do with the size of the disk. Under FreeBSD,
accesses to the (E)IDE disks use programmed I/O.

	Luigi
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