Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:22:59 +0200 (EET) From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961124152001.20127C-100000@creator.gu.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <199611240843.JAA09759@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, J Wunsch wrote:
>
> Btw., you can use whatever translation you want with `DD' mode, as
> long as the number of sectors per track is >= 15. Obviously, this
> wasn't the case for this (erroneous) 1/1 translation, but all `real
> world' translations should fit. That's one of the reasons why i'm
> advocating for `DD` that much; you'll soon forget the word `geometry'.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's what already happened to me -- even with IDE disks
(in the latter case you should only watch out that
Cyls. in CMOS are < 1024, and "DD" mode just works also).
> ;-)
Hey, no jokes! :-)
> --
> 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. ;-)
>
--
Best,
Andrew Stesin
nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
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