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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
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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.

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My expressions are not those of NEC America or Structured Software Solutions.
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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.'
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