Re: Larger than 8 gig IDE drives

[Jukka A Andberg <jaandber%cs.Helsinki.FI@localhost>]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> A) Yes! Let me explain how I think modern IDE drives work:
>
> - the c-h-s geometry indicates the maximum that the (old) BIOS functions
> can handle, 8.mumble Gigabytes, depending on the definition of GB.
>
> (16383 * 255 * 63 * 512 bytes).
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Don't you mean 16? That would make rather much more than 8GB.

> C) A different question is how to _use_ the disk, as we currently don't have
> any in-tree RDB generator in NetBSD. If you create a RDB and PARTs that

Makes one wonder if it would be hard to make such thing.