Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:21:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Tamgiao Nguyen <tnguye21@umbc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1024 cyl Message-ID: <200007240121.SAA28108@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <397B97DE.805B0A19@umbc.edu> from Tamgiao Nguyen at "Jul 23, 2000 09:11:58 pm"
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Tamgiao Nguyen wrote: > Thanks to all who answered my previous questions. > > My new questions: > > 1> My second HDD (IDE) is 45GB, the number of cylinders even after > LBA-translated still is way over 1024. Will it cause a problem? > > 2> Do I have to worry about the 8GB barrier i.e. keeping the FBSD boot > partition (as well as other boot partitions) within the first 8GB? Depends. For versions prior to 4.1, yes, you need to worry about this. However, 4.1 is coming out on the 25th, and it doesn't have this problem provided your BIOS is relatively recent. Yours is quite new, so it should be fine. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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