From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 29 13:30:38 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA05805 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:30:38 -0800 Received: from mercury.sfsu.edu (mercury.sfsu.edu [130.212.10.162]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA05799 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:30:37 -0800 Received: by mercury.sfsu.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03938; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:30:26 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:30:25 -0800 (PST) From: Timmy Wong To: Sean Kelly Cc: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Problems In-Reply-To: <199412292113.AA239615580@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 964 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Dec 1994, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "Timmy" == Timmy Wong writes: > > Timmy> Hmmm, what happened if I formatted the drive for dos > Timmy> under LBA? Is it supposed to work? Like I installed 300 > Timmy> mb's under dos with the system bioses LBA Translation and > Timmy> then the rest for FreeBSD. Thanks for the idea though. > > I did exactly that with DOS already installed when I installed FreeBSD > on my machinq. Strangely enough, DOS didn't seem to mind at all! > Reads and writes under DOS with the now deactivated LBA mapping worked > just as they did before. And they didn't interfere with FreeBSD, and > vice versa. > > I'm only guessing, but it might've been something to do with DOS > ending well below cyl 1024, but who knows? > > --k > > Yes, you are right about that. I wonder if the systems Bios has the burst transfer rates enabled, would FreeBSD actually be using it though.