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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: LBA/large/normal: Which one should I choose to install FreeBSD Date: 31 Oct 1995 00:04:17 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <473llh$8b9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46sppm$g5g@netnews.ntu.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CHIN-YUAN KUO <d79042@r350.ee.ntu.edu.tw> wrote: >Dear netters, > > When I configured CMOS for my new hard disk, I found >it could be LBA, large or normal mode. Most likely, only `normal'. Perhaps `large'. Don't worry, FreeBSD will be able to access the entire disk anyway, except for the file /kernel that has to be accessed via BIOS routines. Most of the FreeBSD developers don't own IDE drives however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)