Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:11:16 +0900 (JST) From: Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata driver Message-ID: <20021217.231116.71144639.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <19314.1040132436@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20021217.214622.74695206.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> <19314.1040132436@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In article <19314.1040132436@critter.freebsd.dk> phk@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > Is it only for ATA/IDE disks ? > Does it depend on the size of the disks ? Only for the internal IDE controller. The internal IDE controller on pc98 uses the fixed geometry which is 8 heads and 17 sectors. If the size of the disk is larger than 4.2GB (65535C x 8H x 17S x 512B), a different geometry depend on the disk is used. > Does it also affect SCSI disks ? No. --- TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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