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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem With Fujitsu SCSI Drive
Date: 29 Oct 1995 18:22:45 +0100
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Martin Welk <mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de> wrote:

>SCSI host adapters see a disk drive as a number of 512k blocks.

512 bytes, actually. :-)

>Ah, and what we shouldn't forget: older Adaptec 1542B BIOSes (like
>mine) cannot handle drivers over 1 gig. You need a BIOS update,
>which is freely available on their ftp server and their BBS (at
>least, here in Germany it is.)

But that's only relevant for BIOS access (for DOS, or to access the
/kernel inside the FreeBSD root partition).
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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