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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Adding a SCSI disk
Date: 24 Jan 1994 19:33:58 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <2i10dk$7qv@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
Udo Wolter <uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>Hi !
>I get a new disk next week. It's a 1068MB disk. Now I have many
>questions:
>In the FreeBSD manual is mentioned that FreeBSD can only access
>partitions which doesn't have more than 1024MB.

Either the notes are wrong or you misread them.  The 1024MB limit
(or 1024 cylinder limit) is only valid if you are trying to use
your disk with multiple operating sytems such as DOS who have the
1024 cylinder limit.  (Most SCSI controllers use a translated geometry
which fakes the computer into thinking 1 cylinder == 1MB)

If you use FreeBSD only or another operating system w/out the 1024
cylinder limitation you should have no problems.



Nate

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