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From: grail@functional.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Big EIDE disk, old IDE controller
Date: 10 Jul 1997 07:11:17 GMT
Organization: FIS Technologies
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Timothy J. Lee <nobody@not.for.email> wrote:
> Are there any potential problems with using a big ( > 504MB )
> EIDE disk on an old IDE controller with FreeBSD?

None at all. I just recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a Quantum
Bigfoot 4gig drive (slow as hell). No weird hacks to get it to work
at all.



Giao Nguyen