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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD1.1 deal with 1024? Date: 21 Jan 1994 17:46:01 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2hp4cp$8pn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2hmsq2$5rb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2hmsq2$5rb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, Lars Hentschke <nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > >Hi.... > >Will FreeBSD1.1 work with 1024 blocks per cylinders on Disk? >sd0 will be 512 >sd1, sd2, sd3 will be 1024 > I don't understand your question? If you mean does FreeBSD support filesystems with 1024 byte blocks, it does now. If you mean does FreeBSD support disk which contains more than 1024 cylinders it does now, but other operating sytems don't so we have to work around them. What exactly are you asking? Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me