Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 22:45:23 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611240645.WAA02008@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <541.848814950@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 23, 96 09:55:50 pm"
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> > Humm... let me see... if I get this right (I don't use sysinstall, but > > I have seen this X/1/1 translation thing it does) sysinstall defaults to > > a X/1/1 translation, and even goes so far as to write that into the > > MBR on a ``dangerously dedicated'' install. > > This was what phk recommended as proper "hint" values for libdisk in > the dangerously-dedicated case. What would you suggest instead? As ``hint'' values I would suggest X/64/32 (C/H/S) for SCSI drives, for IDE, well, hummmm... I don't really have a lot to say there, as every single scsi controller I can think of _can_ deal with that translation, and it gives you at least 1G of area. Bruces suggested values of X/64/255 cause problems for the controllers that use a different extended tranlation set (ie, X/63/256, X/64/256, and some other strange ones). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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