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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:50:26 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation 
Message-ID:  <200001112150.OAA06787@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:03:54 PST." <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu> 
References:  <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu>  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000111133039.4135B-100000@calvin.saturn-tech.com> <200001112053.NAA06370@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <20000111130354.A10601@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Brooks Davis writes:
: On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000111133039.4135B-100000@calvin.saturn-tech.com> Doug Russell writes:
: > : See, I knew there was a reason I hung on to all these 1M 30 pin SIMMs. :)
: > : Old 386/40s sure make nice little router/modem/whatever boxes.  :)
: > 
: > Until their hard disks go south :-(.  The biggest problems I have with 
: > them is that they also tend to dislike newer ATA disks.
: 
: I think that's why IBM has jumpers on some of their disks that limit
: them to 2GB.  I can't see why else you would want to take a perfectly
: good 8GB+ disk and use it as a 2GB drive.  Of course, some of them may
: not even tolerate that much space.

I've retired perfectly good systems that can't handle having a 600MB
disk connected to them.  Anything over 540MB seems to give it fits,
although I suppose that a BIOS upgrade would help.  I couldn't even
lie to the BIOS and tell it that the drive's geometry was such that
only 540MB would be used.

Warner


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