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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!nuggets From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders.... Date: 26 Jan 1994 09:48:14 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2i5e8u$hlh@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <wilko.758383770@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2hu69c$1jk@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> <2i2t13$oe3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <hastyCK791s.DHB@netcom.com> <vanepp.759548764@sfu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: oppdal.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Peter Van Epp (vanepp@monashee.sfu.ca) wrote: : hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: : >Hmm... can we change the kernel to accomodate 1024 byte sectors and : >associated apps? : >Amancio : >-- : >FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound : >at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD : >Amancio Hasty, Consultant | : >Home: (415) 495-3046 | : >e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: : >ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X : Not and still boot without some changes. I expect (but haven't actually looked : at the BIOS listing) that BIOS boot is expecting 512 byte blocks and isn't : going to be happy if they aren't. yup, thats right: BIOS only boot from 512 byte blocks. But is there a chance to mount 1024-byte-blocks-disks later ? (like NextStepForIntel) Lars.