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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>,
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Subject: RE: Problems installing 4.x on large disks
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One last bit on the SCSI thing - there are _old_ SCSI
adapters, like old aha1520 ISA adapters, that will convert
the drive to a CHS that gets passed to BIOS - these will
have problems with big disks.  But, I should have been
more clear that modern PCI scsi card bioses don't
appear to have this as a problem, and they are standardized
and tested under FreeBSD you might say, which is better
than the mydrid of IDE/motherboard BIOS combinations out there.

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Josh Paetzel
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 9:58 AM
> To: Mike Meyer; Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Problems installing 4.x on large disks
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>
> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 11:37 AM
> Subject: RE: Problems installing 4.x on large disks
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >
> > This of course in *no way* detracts from what Ted said about large
> > drives and BIOS problems. I'm just just not sure how SCSI helps
> solve
> > that problems, because I've never tried to install a huge SCSI drive
> > on a system.
> >
> 
> Well, SCSI disks present themselves as a big list of sectors.  There
> are no geometry issues involved.
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> 
> > <mike
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