Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>     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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199606041727.DAA09734>