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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!hvozda From: hvozda@netcom.com (Eric S. Hvozda) Subject: Re: Large IDE Hard drives with FreeBSD 2.0? Message-ID: <hvozdaD2GMo9.GHn@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <kientzleD23xyp.64G@netcom.com> <3erqn1$7p7@mercury.mcs.com> <kientzleD25GE7.EDx@netcom.com> <3espe1$k0h@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 18:43:21 GMT Lines: 14 In article <3espe1$k0h@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, Jonathan Sturges <sturges@violet.cs.odu.edu> wrote: > >And BTW, I put the honest disk geometry in the BIOS setup; I didn't play >with it. In fact, my BIOS correctly auto-identified the big drive's >parameters... Be careful. In general auto-identified == real, but recently on a Connor 850Mb IDE, I found that weren't the same. Bizzaro eh? -- Ack! Creek, not creek; Pop not soda; Car needs washed...