Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 10:51:18 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: craigh@bugsoft.com (Craig A. Heilman) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Q: Install prob. w/ 1 IDE & 1 SCSI drive Message-ID: <199605020121.KAA26774@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v0213050aadad816c9a1e@[205.213.64.30]> from "Craig A. Heilman" at May 1, 96 04:04:37 pm
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Craig A. Heilman stands accused of saying: > > OK - BootEasy must go on my first disk (IDE). The question that still > remains is "can my FreeBSD root partition reside above the 500MB limit (ie. > can I put it on the SCSI drive)?" Or am I always forced to put FreeBSD's > root partition below the 500 MB limit? It's the 1024 cylinder mark, not the 500MB mark. Very few SCSI controllers suffer from this problem with disks smaller than 8GB, as the h/s values they use aren't constrained in the same way that applies to IDE. > * Craig A. Heilman Bugaboo Software * -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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