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From: falco@io.org (Golan Klinger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: problems using 850Mb disk - 16 or 32 heads?
Date: 23 May 1995 03:13:16 -0400
Organization: Internex Online (Data: 363-3783/Telnet: io.org)
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You will need a 'proper' EIDE controller and BIOS that supports LBA. I
can't tell you too much about it right now, I am still invesitgating this
problem myself but you can get around it. It has to do with all bootable
partitions starting below 1024 cylinders. Basically, this proves yet
again that IDE is a kludge at best.
--
Golan Klinger [falco@io.org] For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
Good, fast or cheap. And all you touch and all you see
Pick two... Is all your life will ever be