Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 03:09:24 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: gurney_j@efn.org Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IDE HD > 1Gb Message-ID: <199511080309.DAA05745@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.951107191102.20476A-100000@nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Nov 7, 95 07:12:53 pm
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John-Mark Gurney stands accused of saying: > > No. The "truth" is that it is impossible for the MBR code, which uses > > the BIOS, to load _any_ operating system from beyond the 1024 cylinder > > mark. > > I haven't tried this... but is it possible if you bios supports setting > the cylinders > 1024? My AMI bios allows you to... but I haven't tried > adding a root partition >1024... No. The cylinder value as passed to the BIOS int13 call is _by_definition_ limited to 10 bits, or 1024. In this context, it simply _cannot_ be done. > John-Mark -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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