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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!myhst1 From: myhst1+@pitt.edu (Ming Y Haung) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Scsi hard drive with freebsd and dos Date: 9 Sep 1994 21:11:52 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh Lines: 13 Message-ID: <34qj2o$1gq@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: scorpion.labs.cis.pitt.edu Hi there, I plan to purchase a 2gig scsi 2 hard drive to replace the IDE I have now, the scsi has 2099 cylinders, and I heard that there is a problem to have the freebsd and dos coexist at the same hard drive if the hard drive's cylinders exceed 1024? Is this olny true for IDE drive or it is the case for SCSI also? If so, how might I use the same drive to load dos and freebsd? Thanks!