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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem With Fujitsu SCSI Drive
Date: 2 Nov 1995 01:43:12 +0100
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Martin Welk <mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de> wrote:
>>But that's only relevant for BIOS access (for DOS, or to access the
>>/kernel inside the FreeBSD root partition).
>
>Yes, but what happens if the BIOS the FreeBSD /kernel think of
>different geometries?
Geometry? We don't need no stinking geometries! :-)
>Has somebody made any experiences running a > 1 gig drive with
>an older BIOS on an Adaptec 1542B or comparable using it with
>FreeBSD and some BIOS-using operating system like DOS?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ah, that's your problem. Well, of course, 'yaknow, i don't have it on
my disk. :-)
Of course, you're right, as soon as you're using something like DOS on
the same disk, you have to care for a useful translation scheme. I
don't.
(Fun writing this in English, while we could easily talk about this on
the phone as well. :)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)