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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support DDO-formatted >528MB IDE drives? Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:13:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5496fk$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5438b2$dvf@news.gvsu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) wrote: > Just as above. :) I've got an older system with the older BIOS, etc. and > have formatted the drives for Disk Manager's DDO, and am curious whether > or not FreeBSD can hack it. Linux wasn't able to figure it all out till > 2.0, I'm wondering if anyone's put this support in FreeBSD? Certainly not, but if your only questions is whether you can _use_ them with FreeBSD: yes. The BIOS is only needed for booting the kernel, so as long as your entire root filesystem (where the /kernel resides) is below ~ 500 MB, you can use the entire drive for BSD. -- 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. ;-)