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Date:      Sun, 18 Dec 1994 11:16:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        dbaker@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Daniel A. Baker)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IDE Driver
Message-ID:  <199412181916.LAA17840@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.90.941218125046.10851A-100000@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> from "Daniel A. Baker" at Dec 18, 94 12:57:36 pm

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>  I talked to Scott Mace, and he told me what my problem is:
> 
> The FreeBSD IDE driver dosen't appear to support the geometry of a IDE 
> device that has a translated device with more that 32 heads...

Wrong.  FreeBSD has no problems doing this, but you must >TELL< it to.
During the install, in the Fdisk screen, use the (G)eometry function to
enter the geometry you want.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk>
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)



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