From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Feb 9 00:23:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07957 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:23:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07898 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA18586; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:22:24 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA25218; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:22:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id IAA15536; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:52:17 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602090752.IAA15536@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/984 To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:52:17 +0100 (MET) Cc: hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602090336.OAA18315@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 9, 96 02:36:02 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)