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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:08:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re IDE/eIDE issues
Message-ID:  <199511170108.RAA02644@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511161736.RAA01702@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> from "Neil Brendan Clark" at Nov 16, 95 05:36:39 pm

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As you've got the two FreeBSD parts next to each other,
why did you make 2?
you only need the a partition to be < 500MB

> 
> In message <199511161421.PAA22771@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>you write:
> >
> >Looking back I find that I did only do mostly SCSI installations
> >in the past and my (successful) IDE  installations date back into
> >times where common IDE drives used to have less than 1/2 GB.
> 
> In my experience the root partition must not only be reachable by the BIOS,
> but be contained entirely within the reachable limits of the BIOS, i.e.
> <1024 cylinders or whatever. On my 1GB drive I have a small root which is
> used to mount the rest after the BIOS has been blown out; here's the fdisk
> info for completeness.
> 
> Neil
> 
> ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=2099 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> 
>  Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=2099 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> 
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 0 is:
> sysid 77,(unknown)
>     start 263088, size 676368 (330 Meg), flag 0
> 	beg: cyl 261/ sector 1/ head 0;
> 	end: cyl 931/ sector 63/ head 15
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 939456, size 42336 (20 Meg), flag 80
> 	beg: cyl 932/ sector 1/ head 0;
> 	end: cyl 973/ sector 63/ head 15
> The data for partition 2 is:
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 981792, size 1134000 (553 Meg), flag 0
> 	beg: cyl 974/ sector 1/ head 0;
> 	end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15
> The data for partition 3 is:
> sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
>     start 63, size 263025 (128 Meg), flag 0
> 	beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
> 	end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 15
> 




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