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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!yale!gumby!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@monashee.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders.... Message-ID: <vanepp.759548764@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca (seymour news) Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada 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> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 01:46:04 GMT Lines: 22 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. Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada