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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!maui.cc.odu.edu!news From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on EIDE Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 11:04:54 -0500 (EST) Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 14 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.951205110117.4640D-100000@hurricane.cs.odu.edu> References: <49a6up$3db@masala.cc.uh.edu> <49jr5n$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hurricane.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <49jr5n$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> On 30 Nov 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > (FreeBSD could handle up to 16 heads, 255 sectors, 64K cylinders. For > a bootable disk, it's 16 heads, 63 sectors, 64K cylinders, since it > must remain accessible for the BIOS. You can also say 31.5 GB.) Then why is it that i needed to go into my bios and set my hd from normal to lba mode when I installed 2.0.5? 2.0 and earlier recognized my whole drive (wd ac31000 1.083 G, smc promise eide controller) in normal mode, but 2.0.5, and 2.1 will not? Jamie I spent yesterday thinking about the tomorrow that is today.