On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, der Mouse wrote:

> ...I eventually determined
> that the ROM routines used by the first-stage bootblocks simply refuse
> to read past the first 1G of the disk!  It appears something is
> throwing away everything but the low 21 bits of the block number at
> some point - and worse, this applies to the absolute block number, not
> the partition-relative block number.

Bing! Can you say, ``six byte SCSI commands''? I knew you could! :-)

cjs

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