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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Scsi hard drive with freebsd and dos Date: 10 Sep 1994 00:15:46 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <34qtri$kpf@hermes.unt.edu> References: <34qj2o$1gq@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <34qj2o$1gq@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, Ming Y Haung <myhst1+@pitt.edu> wrote: > 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? You can still use your drive for both MSDOS and *BSD providing you take a few precautions. If you are using the drive under MSDOS than you are using some kind of translated disk geometry since MSDOS doesn't supprot > 1024 cylinders. You will have to find out what the MSDOS translated geometry is. When you install *BSD enter the translated geometry that MSDOS uses instead of the actual geometry. -- Bruce Jackson | Univ. of North Texas | jackson@cs.unt.edu UNIX Systems Admin. | P. O. Box 13886 | GAB 550E (817)565-2279 Dept. of Computer Sci.| Denton, Tx. 76203-3886 | FAX: (817)565-2799