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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!mailer.fsu.edu!nntp.cntfl.com!news.supernet.net!vivaldi.inoc.dl.nec.com!cnad.dl.nec.com!rss.dl.nec.com!news From: Michael Teter <teter> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: problems using 850Mb disk - 16 or 32 heads? Date: 23 May 1995 18:34:51 GMT Organization: NEC America, Irving, Texas Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3pt9sb$f6u@puma.rss.dl.nec.com> References: <D8st6x.DEG@cmutual.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: phantom.rss.dl.nec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 5.3 sun4m) X-URL: news:D8st6x.DEG@cmutual.com.au I don't know much about what I'm going to tell you, but I have been told by someone who does understand system administration (including freebsd) that currently, FreeBSD can't handle a disk geometry beyond a certain number of cylinders. he told me this after trying to help me install freebsd on my machine. as far as he could tell, the only reason there was the limitation was because the driver had an arbitrary limit set on the number of cylinders. hope that made some sense. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My expressions are not those of NEC America or Structured Software Solutions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael D. Teter ~ 'Go until you stop.' teter@rss.dl.nec.com ~ 'It takes a lot of time to be a genius... you have to teter@netcom.com ~ sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~