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From: hvozda@netcom.com (Eric S. Hvozda)
Subject: Re: Large IDE Hard drives with FreeBSD 2.0?
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References: <kientzleD23xyp.64G@netcom.com> <3erqn1$7p7@mercury.mcs.com> <kientzleD25GE7.EDx@netcom.com> <3espe1$k0h@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 18:43:21 GMT
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In article <3espe1$k0h@xanth.cs.odu.edu>,
Jonathan Sturges <sturges@violet.cs.odu.edu> wrote:
>
>And BTW, I put the honest disk geometry in the BIOS setup;  I didn't play
>with it.  In fact, my BIOS correctly auto-identified the big drive's
>parameters...

Be careful.

In general auto-identified == real, but recently on a Connor
850Mb IDE, I found that weren't the same.  Bizzaro eh?
-- 
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