From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 8: 9: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1B4158F1 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 08:08:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA02871; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:14:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3821AFAF.E1B6A92D@nisser.com> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:09:19 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alejandro Ramirez Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: disk cylinder count wrong References: <382054E6.67A72B4D@nisser.com> <034901bf2620$68d59520$bdc3fea9@megared.net.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > > You have to use LBA mode. Why would that make a difference (not that I didn't try, I did and it doesn't). Both large and LBA suffice to bring the cylinder count below the 1024 BIOS bottleneck. FreeBSD, however, only seems to see and use the raw configuration. It does not detect the BIOS mode correctly. Be it LBA or large. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message