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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 insists on translating!
Date: 4 Sep 1995 17:09:31 +0200
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Ed Hew <edhew@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca> wrote:
>Even though I have turned off all the "drive > 1GB" etc. options
>in the SCSIselect utility I still can't convince the damn 2940
>to leave my geometry well enough alone!
Don't care too much. FreeBSD uses the BIOS interface only for booting
(actually, it's not yet FreeBSD there) and is able to handle anything
else later. All you need is making sure the / file system will reside
below the 1024 cylinder watermark (since the /kernel file must be read
by the BIOS services).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)