Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:30:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org, durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS partition trouble Message-ID: <199702092030.NAA25138@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199702062140.IAA05338@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 7, 97 08:40:19 am
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> >I was under the impression that fictitious geometry was *always* > >an artifact of the BIOS's idea of geometry, not the oter way around. > > That would usually fail for disks partitioned under another BIOS, > especially under an old BIOS with a limited number of defaults. Ugh. So NCR has "clevered us up the butt". 8-(. When will we start using LBA's in the boot code, and ignoring the C/H/S portion of the partition table? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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