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From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders....
Date: 12 Jan 1994 11:43:20 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Lyndon Fletcher (etllnfr@bugs.ericsson.se) wrote:
: First off, thanks to everyone who answered my earlier postings. This has
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: a) Mounting the existing dos partition (I assume this is the Translated
: value as this is how dos formated the disk.)
: b) Putting BSD on this larger disk (any idea's??)
: Thanks
: Fletch
same problem, another question:
I've an Adaptec 1542B and some MircopolisXXXX 130MB SCSI0 (???) with
1024 b/s.
Somewhere i herd from a succesful low-level formatting
Blocks per Sector/2 and Sectors/Cylinder*2 or so ...
Now i'm searching for tools on FreeBSD, NextStep, AmigaDOS, or MSDOS.
Any suggestions?
Thanx and bis denne ...
Lars.