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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-cv!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.willamette.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE/EIDE Date: 06 Nov 1995 21:48:06 -0800 Organization: measure twice, cut once Lines: 12 Sender: nawaz921@brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imspk1asbt.fsf@brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <47ftp2$8n0@ns1.tstt.net.tt> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: feisal@tstt.net.tt's message of 4 Nov 1995 14:36:18 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.9 In article <47ftp2$8n0@ns1.tstt.net.tt> feisal@tstt.net.tt writes: $ 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? i think so. my machine at home has one 850mb seagate drive; it has the ide controller on the motherboard. i have a seagate 540mb on a machine at work, and it's running with a standard ide controller.