From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 14:49:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA16941 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 14:49:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Daisy.ee.und.ac.za [146.230.192.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16931 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 14:48:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za by daisy.ee.und.ac.za with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #31) id m0tXEhJ-0007WOC; Tue, 2 Jan 96 23:56 GMT+0200 Received: by cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za (/\==/\ Smail3.1.22.1 #22.20) id ; Tue, 2 Jan 96 23:56 SAT Message-Id: From: tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za (Anthony Naggs) Subject: Re: HELP!!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (fwd) To: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Date: Tue, 2 Jan 96 23:56:05 SAT Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9601021941.AA25666@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at>; from "marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at" at Jan 2, 96 8:41 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.30] Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I don't recall seeing the original posting, anyway ... > > > Oi! Anyone out there with a non-LBA PC with an IDE disk bigger than 500M, > > using something other than Disk Manager, speak up! We need info from you > > about it! > > 300 Megs of DOS, rest for FreeBSD NFS client. > > Somehow, I don't think you had this kind of response in mind :) > > ... For DOS machines there seem to be two products in use. The first being Disk Manager, which can either: 1. be loaded as a DOS device driver from a smaller boot partition, and provides access to the rest of the disk as Disk Manager partitions, (like the earlier version that overcame the 32Mb per hard drive limitation). 2. Loads from the MBR, installs itself in memory in the Int 13h chain and handles the LBA addressing "transparently". Confusion comes from the requirement to set a small hard drive size in the CMOS setup. (Currently shipped on Maxtor IDE hard drives >504Mb.) [I prefer the first option myself, as I normally partition my DOS disks anyway and it gives me control.] The other product is Micro House's EZ-Drive, which does much the same thing but only works in the second mode described above. (Currently shipped on Seagate drives >504Mb.) -- Anthony Naggs - Computer Security & Anti-Virus Engineer, CSIR, South Africa Disclaimer: these are my personal views and opinions, and do not represent my employers; past, present or future.