Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:52:17 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: bin/984 Message-ID: <199602090752.IAA15536@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602090336.OAA18315@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 9, 96 02:36:02 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > > (No, i'm not going to buy just another motherboard to see your > > > problems fixed. Even if i did -- i wouldn't had the problem in the > > > first place, or whaddaya think why i've been inventing the > > > ``dangerously dedicated'' mode? :) > > For ideological reasons. Not only. :) I've got too many complaints from industry users and other people running dedicated FreeBSD systems. Describing them that they first had to install something called DOS didn't make a good impression... and was not necessary. > With a geometry of 1 sector/track and 1 track/cylinder, anything larger > than 1MB will be above the 1024 cylinder mark. Hmm, we only support >= 15 sectors/track, the size of the bootstrap code (which is assumed to be on cylinder 0 head 0). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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