From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 20 10:26:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB4FE37B4CF for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAKIQOQ25713; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:26:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id eAKIQKG07857; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:26:20 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011201826.eAKIQKG07857@billy-club.village.org> To: Keith Jones Subject: Re: BootEasy and PC-XT partitions [was Re: Dedicated disks...] Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:43:08 GMT." <20001120174308.A14723@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <20001120174308.A14723@moose.bri.hp.com> <200011201003.eAKA3RS01865@possum.os2.ami.com.au> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:26:19 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [[ bcc'd to stable, moved to arch ]] In message <20001120174308.A14723@moose.bri.hp.com> Keith Jones writes: : Additionally, how many sectors can we actually *guarantee* are there if we : were to include support for legacy IDE disks? (I'm guessing some of the : older ones had less than 63spt, though all mine ended up in the skip long : ago so I can't tell anymore...) The DOC2k that I used at have 2spt. Yes, 2spt. But I generally don't have agressive needs for my boot loader on these systems. :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message