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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!tcsi.tcs.com!uunet!mr.net!winternet.com!pinch.io.org!ionews.io.org!nobody 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) Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3ps1uc$36a@ionews.io.org> References: <D8st6x.DEG@cmutual.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: grin.io.org 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