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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, John Margaritis wrote:

> Can FreeBSD be installed on an IDE hard drive that is setup with LBA
> goemetry?

Works here.

> I am a computer technician, and I noticed that in the BIOS setup
> (primarily the Award BIOS), it has a message at the bottom saying:
> 
> "Hard drive should be set to 'normal' for UNIX " 

I've got an Award BIOS, if that message is on mine I never noticed it. :)


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