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.
How can I tell NetBSD to grab a whole disk? Any ideas ?
Thanks.

Jake

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rene Hexel <rh@idle.trapdoor.vip.at>
To: Jake J Sadowski <austran@earthlink.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: LBA and big hd


>> Jake J Sadowski wrote:
>>
>> Does NetBSD see hard disks over 16383/16/63 ? Does it support LBA ?
>
>  Yes and yes.  For booting, however, the BIOS is required.  Therefore, the
root partition has to reside within a BIOS-accessible area ...
>
>  For more information, see
>
>  http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#determining_geometry
>
> Cheers
>     ,
>  Rene
>