From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 23 18:22: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC2637B737 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA28108; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007240121.SAA28108@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: 1024 cyl In-Reply-To: <397B97DE.805B0A19@umbc.edu> from Tamgiao Nguyen at "Jul 23, 2000 09:11:58 pm" To: Tamgiao Nguyen Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:21:33 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tamgiao Nguyen wrote: > Thanks to all who answered my previous questions. > > My new questions: > > 1> My second HDD (IDE) is 45GB, the number of cylinders even after > LBA-translated still is way over 1024. Will it cause a problem? > > 2> Do I have to worry about the 8GB barrier i.e. keeping the FBSD boot > partition (as well as other boot partitions) within the first 8GB? Depends. For versions prior to 4.1, yes, you need to worry about this. However, 4.1 is coming out on the 25th, and it doesn't have this problem provided your BIOS is relatively recent. Yours is quite new, so it should be fine. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message