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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:10:57 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        bosch@meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Western Digital Caviar 1.28Gig HDD?
Message-ID:  <199510202010.NAA05202@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <9510201515.AA06090@opus.meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com> from "bosch@meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com" at Oct 20, 95 11:15:29 am

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> Never the less, I would be interested to know how FreeBSD works with
> the "Ontrack Disk Manager".  For instance, does it still require the
> root partition to be within the 1024 limit?

Yes it does.  The second stage boot loader does not use the LBA INT 21
extensions needed for BIOS based code to recognize cylinders past 1024.

99.9% of DOS code doesn't either, so LBA buys you very little, period.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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