Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 03:27:03 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: julian@ref.tfs.com, rhh@ct.picker.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@sri.MT.net Subject: Re: LBA and Large IDE driver with 2.1R Message-ID: <199606041727.DAA09734@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> Are my suppositions correct here? That is, is 1024 cylinders the real >limit, and 512MB just what it typically equates to without LBA? And Yes, 1024 cylinders is the real limit. The limit in bytes depends on the disk geometry. >(assuming yes) does FreeBSD fully support a bootable FreeBSD partition >anywhere on an LBA disk given that the remapped cylinder number is < 1024? FreeBSD supports booting from kernels anywhere on any disk given that the possibly-remapped BIOS cylinder number(s) (for all data in the kernel and all metadata associated with the kernel) are < 1024. Bruce
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