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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!serval!beta.tricity.wsu.edu!msmith From: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 vs. ZBR (Zone Bit Recording) Message-ID: <1994Mar30.053714.21103@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University Tri-Cities References: <FEN.94Mar29181858@imagine.comedia.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 05:37:14 GMT Lines: 17 In article <FEN.94Mar29181858@imagine.comedia.com>, Fen Labalme <fen@imagine.comedia.com> wrote: >Same friend (who trashed his disk with NFS) is now trying to install >on a disk with ZBR (Zone Bit Recording?) that has several numbers of >disk sectors per cylinder, or some such, so as to have more data on >the outside tracks where there is more room. > >Can NetBSD be installed on such a disk? > Sure! Most IDE type drives use such a sceme. I'm currently running FreeBSD and have run NetBSD on a Micropolis 2112A which does radical sector translation and ZBR. Just DON'T EVER run bad144 (or what ever the bad sector mapper is) because the IDE type drives do bad mapping in hardware. Mark