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From: tlw@teleport.com (Tommy Willoughby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can geometry affect D. I/O performance?
Date: 19 Nov 1996 07:07:10 GMT
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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mlb@csn.org wrote:
: hello.

:    While the probe at boot correctly identifies the geometry of
:    my IDE drive ( the correct # of clys, hd's etc ), during 
:    installation I configured with all 0's [zeros].

Okay, I'll bite - why on earth would you want to do this?

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