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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:59:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
cc: "Jeff Z. Chi" <zchi@hal.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Tuesday, 18 August 1998 at 15:19:34 -0700, Doug White wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jeff Z. Chi wrote:
> >
> >> I know FreeBSD 2.2 cannot handle EIDE drives greater than 500 MB.
> >> As instructed in the book, we have to partition it into 2 boot
> >> partitions, one for win and one for FreeBSD.
> >
> > That is a limitation of your system BIOS, not FreBSD.
> >
> >> I am wonder if the upcoming FreeBSD 3.0 still has that problem.
> >
> > On your system, yes.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here, Doug.  There *have*
> been problems with IDE disks with more than 8 GB under 2.X, and
> they've only just been resolved (after 2.2.7-RELEASE).  Jeff, if you
> have a disk like that, you should upgrade to 2.2-STABLE.

Yeah, but it doesn't relate to booting.  The 1024 cylinder limit is
strictly a BIOS problem.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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