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From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
Subject: Re: IDE Hard Disk questions
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:

: If the drive is FreeBSD and FreeBSD only, you can select any geometry
: you want when using the ``dangerously dedicated'' mode.

	Joerg,

	Is this also true for IDE drives?  I mean -- will just
	plain motherboard BIOS, not the SCSI HBA's one, live fine
	with this?

	(I'll check this evening -- going to purge win95% away
	from my home machine at last, in favor of FreeBeast fresh
	-current snapshot :)

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