From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 27 09:51:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA23485 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:51:12 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA23479 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:51:11 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA26953; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:50:51 -0800 To: "Clay D. Hopperdietzel" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: >1024 cyl IDE drive In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jan 95 08:48:09 CST." <199501271448.IAA17392@anvil.appsmiths.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:50:51 -0800 Message-ID: <26952.791229051@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You're saying that these bootblock-remapping drives fall over kicking when you install the boot manager? Aieee! I can't say we weren't warned about this.. Or does this not have anything to do with the boot block? Jordan > > 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.