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Subject: Re: Re IDE/eIDE issues
To: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 02:11:48 -0800 (PST)
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> 
> The way I allocated space was like this;
> 	DOS	128M
> 	QNX	330M
> 	FBSD1	20M
> 	FBSD2	553M
> 
> which allowed me to access all OS's freely without changing any BIOS parameters,
> aside from removing the initial brain damaged IDE translation. If I had merged
> FBSD1 and FBSD2 into the one partition, it would not be wholly within the reach
> of the BIOS and would not boot. I know this, since I tried it ;-)
> 
No, this is where you are wrong..
it would work
as long as the 'a' subdivision of the FBSD slice was below Cyl 1024
the rest doesn't matter..