smb@research.att.com (Steve Bellovin) writes:

>BIOS disk geometry:
>cylinders: 1024, heads: 240, sectors/track: 63 (15120 sectors/cylinder)
>total sectors: 268435455

That is exactly 128GB minus 1 sector which is the maximum size
you can address with LBA32.

>Why do the BIOS and NetBSD number of sectors disagree?

I would guess the BIOS doesn't know about LBA48 or tries to
hide a drive requiring LBA48 from dumb OSes.


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