From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 27 06:48:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA18036 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 06:48:38 -0800 Received: from anvil.appsmiths.com (appsmiths.sccsi.com [198.65.134.98]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA18031 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 06:48:36 -0800 Received: (from hoppy@localhost) by anvil.appsmiths.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id IAA17392 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:48:11 -0600 From: "Clay D. Hopperdietzel" Message-Id: <199501271448.IAA17392@anvil.appsmiths.com> Subject: >1024 cyl IDE drive To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:48:09 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 703 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What a pile. This thing seems to have some special *boot* code on it to scramble BIOS' brain. >1600 cylinders. Some looney software to write the boot-block, partition it (oh, you want 2 partitions, okay here's 2 400MB partitions!). Has anybody ever made one of these goofy things work with FreeBSD, or should I just give it a fling? Thought it might be interesting to play with. I decided to give it a try, since the el-sleezo (dirt-cheep) PC sellers are pushing these hard. If it won't work, I can easily get my money back. The reason I took it was to see what kind of trouble they generate. It will only be a matter of time before these things are romping the planet and causing trouble.