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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!glukr!info.elvisti.kiev.ua!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: Re: IDE Hard Disk questions X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: news@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (News Subsystem) Organization: ElVisti Information center Message-ID: <DtB9oz.25L@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <4pp2no$334@news.ida.org> <4pv1c3$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:22:11 GMT Lines: 23 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 :) -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.