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To: Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>
cc: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>, stable@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: probs with latest stable snap 
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:26:57 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Bleh. :-)

> 
> 
> On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > First, when installing, I tried to create two freebsd partitions on the
> > > same drive.  When it tried to format the partitions, I got
> > > "/dev/rsd0s1a: 'a' partition is unavailable"
> > 
> > DO NOT DO THAT.  I guess I'll have to make it an error to do so since
> > there are a lot of ways you can hose yourself if you do this (for one
> > thing, it will only boot from the first partition it finds).
> > 
> 
> You have to use two freebsd partitions in order to get bad144 working
> on disks with more then 1024 cylinders. Most edsi's need this.
> 
> -Dima
> > 					Jordan
> >