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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: 4 Feb 1997 00:01:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5d5u9h$emg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> <32EAE731.2447@worldnet.att.net> <32EB55F2.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> <32EB735F.46E5@worldnet.att.net> <32F0EC95.794BDF32@acm.org> <5ct79t$jou@boursy.news.erols.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35032 mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans ) wrote: > Also, newer BIOSes do SCSI-style cylinder translation for IDE drive > with >1024 cylinders. I wonder how they do this given the restrictions of the arguments to the int 0x13 calls. Or do you mean IDE drives that do the translation? But that's rather `olds', even the 40 MB Wester Digital disk in my first AT-class machine could do this (aged 1990). Still, you'll be restricted to 10 bits for the cylinder number and 16 bits for the head number in the int 0x13 call the bootstrap is using. -- 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. ;-)