From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 20: 1:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C8837C063 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:01:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA86370; Wed, 10 May 2000 12:31:38 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:31:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bart Lateur Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question on Dell Latitude laptops Message-ID: <20000510123138.B86264@freebie.lemis.com> References: <39161984.DAC5F078@S1.com> <20000508115227.O61921@freebie.lemis.com> <39178589.8F1DD08B@playground.net> <20000509173956.V75157@freebie.lemis.com> <391c0c41.15198681@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <391c0c41.15198681@relay.skynet.be> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at 13:02:56 +0000, Bart Lateur wrote: > On Tue, 9 May 2000 17:39:57 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> The 1024 cylinder restriction went away a long time ago. > > I'm not sure of it. Even if you check brand new computers, you're still > likely to find that the BIOS is a few years old. If you can give me a specific example, I'd be interested to hear it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message