From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 14:40:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5C637BB5F for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.48]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:45:10 -0700 Message-ID: <39076245.1FA3D40D@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:40:21 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: xvudpapc Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS supports, systems not References: <39075D07.A7DE86DE@savba.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG xvudpapc wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a question. My BIOS declares it knows and writes out the full > capacity of my disk (8.4 GB) in BIOS setup, > but no system is aware of it. I use BEOS, WIN98, OS/2, LINUX and > FREEBSD. Every system of these declares the disk is 8 GB big. I have a > Linux on a second disk. Is there a way I can tell FreeBSD in boot time > how many cylinders, heads and sectors to use? My FreeBSD says this: ad0 > 16383/16/63. Although this is possible to tell it in Linux to Lilo.conf > or at boot time, Linux is not my 8.4 GB disk. Well, you have two ways of reporting drive size. In Win98 one kind of dir would show you 8,384,000,000 or 8GB. The manufacturers find it convient to advertise one way and the systems people the other way. The product of (16383*16*63*512)=8455200768/(1024*1024)=8063MB or 8GB. Kent > > I thank you in advance, > Juraj > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message