Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:25:11 -0500 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does Size Really Matter ( Any More ) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010110182118.017422a0@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <3A5C5C29.1FC3B205@uwi.tt>
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Yeah, size still does matter. On EIDE hard drives, you can create partitions anywhere, but you won't be able to directly boot any partition beyond the 1024th cylinder. Using the logical block addressing (LBA) on most large drives, this means anything more than 8 GB from the start the start of the drive. --Chip Morton At 07:57 AM 1/10/2001, Dale Chulhan - Home wrote: >Hello in my beginning days of bsd and linux etc there were many >documentations indicating that the root slice of FreeBSD cannot be >beyond the 1024th cylinder. > >I was wondering if in today's now commonplace world of 20 and 80 GB >drives if this still holds true. > >Take for example if I have a nice lil IBM or Seagate 40GB drive and I >take the first half for Win98 and I Install FreeBSD on the second 20GB >partition, what will be the consequences? > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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