Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 22:56:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: jbryant@unix.tfs.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc0 - translation for drives > 1G Message-ID: <199805160456.WAA24806@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199805160244.VAA16647@unix.tfs.net>
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In article <199805160244.VAA16647@unix.tfs.net> you wrote: > > Does -current support geometry translations for drives > 1G, aka the > adaptec bios option to do so? > > jim FreeBSD doesn't care very much about the translation. The only time it matters is for booting. For your boot device, you must ensure that the fdisk information matches the geometry set in the BIOS so that the boot blocks are placed in the correct location for the BIOS to find them. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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