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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FREEBSD and large hard drives
Date: 5 Jan 1997 17:22:36 GMT
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jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau) wrote:

> A caveat with using > 1 Gb translation, you may have to reformat your
> SCSI drive.

Not `reformat' in the (low-level) SCSI sense.  But, since other
systems and the BIOS depend from the C/H/S numbers, yes, you have to
at least fiddle with the figures in the fdisk table after changing it.
Most likely, you also have to recreate your DOS partition.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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