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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:48:09 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Clay D. Hopperdietzel" <hoppy@appsmiths.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   >1024 cyl IDE drive
Message-ID:  <199501271448.IAA17392@anvil.appsmiths.com>

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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.




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