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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!portal!fmiapd2!hado From: hado@fmiapd2.uucp (Ha Do) Subject: translated disk geometry for scsi hard disk Message-ID: <1993Aug18.002805.1833@fmiapd2.uucp> Keywords: disk geometry, scsi Organization: Fujitsu Microelectroics Inc Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 00:28:05 GMT Lines: 18 I am about to install 386bsd on part of 1Gigabyte scsi Toshiba hard disk, which has more than 1024 cylinders. It's my understanding that IDE hard disk needs to be configured with untranslated disk geometry, since the wd driver software goes to IDE controller and ask for this info directly instead of believing in CMOS numbers. Is it the same problem with scsi hard disk ? Do I have to use untranslated disk geometry numbers ? This would force me to truncate my cylinder number to 1024 ? Please help. Also, has anyone been able to have DOS, 386bsd and Window NT co-exist within one hard disk, and boot them using OS-BS, or some other boot program ? ----------------------------------------------------- disclaimer: my opinions are my own, not of my employer -----------------------------------------------------