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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:52:17 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list)
Subject:   Re: bin/984
Message-ID:  <199602090752.IAA15536@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602090336.OAA18315@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 9, 96 02:36:02 pm

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> > > (No, i'm not going to buy just another motherboard to see your
> > > problems fixed.  Even if i did -- i wouldn't had the problem in the
> > > first place, or whaddaya think why i've been inventing the
> > > ``dangerously dedicated'' mode? :)
> 
> For ideological reasons.

Not only. :) I've got too many complaints from industry users and
other people running dedicated FreeBSD systems.  Describing them that
they first had to install something called DOS didn't make a good
impression... and was not necessary.

> With a geometry of 1 sector/track and 1 track/cylinder, anything larger
> than 1MB will be above the 1024 cylinder mark.

Hmm, we only support >= 15 sectors/track, the size of the bootstrap
code (which is assumed to be on cylinder 0 head 0).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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