Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 14:04:17 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, jkh@FreeBSD.org, hoppy@appsmiths.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: >1024 cyl IDE drive Message-ID: <199501282204.OAA26907@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9501282158.AA02296@squid.umd.edu> from "Fred Cawthorne" at Jan 28, 95 04:58:33 pm
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> > > Ummm... Why can't you just rewrite the MBR with fdisk or something?? > > > > > > What do you do about the factory installed Windows and other software > > on the disk already, that depends on the geometry staying put? > > > > > I guess then we're out of luck... I just noticed a message from Listen guys, you are way out on a tangent. There is >one< place where we need to care about the geometry we use: The boot-block. We can use any geometry we like in the kernel, as long as we have our partition boundaries the same places. This config will work just fine, the trick is to >uncouple< our devicedrivers from the bios/mbr view of things. I don't have the code to do this right now, but I belive I know what it takes to do it... And yes I'll try before 2.1. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)
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