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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE/EIDE Date: 5 Nov 1995 23:10:30 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <47jcom$nl1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47ftp2$8n0@ns1.tstt.net.tt> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <feisal@tstt.net.tt> wrote: >I have a Compaq Presario 850 (486/50 with 16M) with a Seagate 420 drive. >I am going to purchase another 540 drive to put FreeBSD. However the dealer >is suggesting a larger drive. Can FreeBSD use a larger IDE drive without >my purchasing an EIDE controller? FreeBSD doesn't specifically support EIDE controllers at all. I think it can use more than 504 MB on IDE (but you have to allocate the root file system below `cylinder' 1024), since it's not bound to the crippled BIOS interface except for booting. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)