On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:45:35PM +0100, 15176602@users.siol.net wrote:

> Can somebody please tell me what are the limitations of built-in IDE
> controller in Ulta 5 class machines ?

It can not do any ultra dma modes.

> What is the biggest drive size supported by hardware (so NetBSD can
> boot off of it) ?

You need FFSv1 to be able to boot from the disk, so it's 2^31 sectors
or something. Any drive works, you don't need a SUN labeled one.

There have been rumors that some firmware versions have problems booting
from big disks, but I don't think this has been confirmed (and you could
create a small boot partition to work around it).

Martin