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

Erik Trulsson ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Fri Oct 3 06:55:09 PDT 2003


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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Erik Trulsson
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