Re: FreeBSD4.5 release supports bigLBA( over 136GB HDD)?

2003-10-04 Thread Luke Kearney
Currently using 250gb drives here without any difficulties.

Good Luck

LK


On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:37:41 -0500
kitsune [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom:

 On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:46:42 +0900
 topaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Dear Sirs
  
  I have been using FreeBSD4.5 as a File server.
  
  I like to use 200GB  IDE HDD(WD 2000)  with FreeBSD4.5.
  
  BIOS supports bigLBA.
  
  Does  FreeBSD4.5 support big LBA/
  
  If not, which release of FreeBSD can support bigLBA?
 
 Currently using a 160GB here with out problems.
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FreeBSD4.5 release supports bigLBA( over 136GB HDD)?

2003-10-03 Thread topaz
Dear Sirs

I have been using FreeBSD4.5 as a File server.

I like to use 200GB  IDE HDD(WD 2000)  with FreeBSD4.5.

BIOS supports bigLBA.

Does  FreeBSD4.5 support big LBA/

If not, which release of FreeBSD can support bigLBA?


Y.Nishimura


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Re: FreeBSD4.5 release supports bigLBA( over 136GB HDD)?

2003-10-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:46:42PM +0900, topaz wrote:
 Dear Sirs
 
 I have been using FreeBSD4.5 as a File server.
 
 I like to use 200GB  IDE HDD(WD 2000)  with FreeBSD4.5.
 
 BIOS supports bigLBA.
 
 Does  FreeBSD4.5 support big LBA/

The release notes for 4.5 says:

   The ata(4) driver now has support for 48-bit addressing. Devices
   larger than 137GB are now supported.

So the answer would seem to be Yes.

 
 If not, which release of FreeBSD can support bigLBA?

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Re: FreeBSD4.5 release supports bigLBA( over 136GB HDD)?

2003-10-03 Thread kitsune
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:46:42 +0900
topaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dear Sirs
 
 I have been using FreeBSD4.5 as a File server.
 
 I like to use 200GB  IDE HDD(WD 2000)  with FreeBSD4.5.
 
 BIOS supports bigLBA.
 
 Does  FreeBSD4.5 support big LBA/
 
 If not, which release of FreeBSD can support bigLBA?

Currently using a 160GB here with out problems.
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