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From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
Subject: Re: Is large IDE disk supported?
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 22:20:58 GMT
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In article <3159CC53.2BB9@ibm.net>,
	Savas Pavlidis <savas01@ibm.net> writes:
>I have FreeBSD 2.0, January 1995.
>
>Trying to install on a Pentium 100Mhz, 16MB Ram, Jet686 motherboard
>with EIDE disk Quantum Fireball 1.28 GB Pio-mode 4, got errors, saying 
>cannot handle the number of culinders/heads etc. No such problem on an 
>old 127 MB IDE disk (CHS mode) Is this a problem of version 2.0? Is it 
>solved on 2.1? 
>
See my comments in another article this morning.

/mark

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