>>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.dez.zwei@onlinehome.de> writes:

    Klaus> Manuel suggests, that NetBSD supports 48-bit LBA addresses
    Klaus> beginning with release 1.6. Can anyone confirm this who
    Klaus> actually tried that?

I did (dmesg excerpt):

  NetBSD 1.6_STABLE (TONNE) #0: Sun Dec  1 14:11:27 MET 2002
      root@base:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TONNE
  cpu0: Intel Pentium 4 (686-class), 1818.01 MHz
  [...]
  pciide0 at pci2 dev 11 function 0: Promise Ultra100TX2/ATA Bus Master IDE Accelerator (rev. 0x02)
  [...]
  wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0>
  wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
  wd0: 186 GB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 390721968 sectors
  wd0: 32-bit data port
  [...]
  pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 1: Intel 82801DB IDE Controller (ICH4) (rev. 0x01)
  [...]
  wd7 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 1: <WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0>
  wd7: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
  wd7: 186 GB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 390721968 sectors
  wd7: 32-bit data port

Works fine!

Only minus was/is the practical 1 tb ffs partition size limit due to
newfs limits.

Markus.