From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 15 22:00:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00643 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 22:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00636 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 22:00:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id WAA24806; Fri, 15 May 1998 22:56:03 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 22:56:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199805160456.WAA24806@narnia.plutotech.com> To: jbryant@unix.tfs.net cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc0 - translation for drives > 1G Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199805160244.VAA16647@unix.tfs.net> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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