Subject: Re: LBA and big hd
To: Jake J Sadowski <austran@earthlink.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/10/1999 12:04:32
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:55:40AM -0700, Jake J Sadowski wrote:
> Thanks Rene. My actual problem is in telling netbsd my disk geometry. BIOS
> is limited
> to 16383/16/63. My new Seagate is 17.2 GB but the geometry listed is still
> 16383/16/63.
Yes, CHS geometry can't be more than that, it's a limitation of the BIOS.
But NetBSD should be able tp use the whole disk, as it uses LBA.
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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