Subject: Re: NetBSD and 730 MB IDE Hard Drives
To: Michael Graff <explorer@vorpal.com>
From: Brian D. Carlstrom <bdc@ai.mit.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/26/1994 21:47:11 
>>> Michael Graff writes:

    >> I am planning on purchasing a 730 megabyte Western Digital IDE
    >> drive.  Will NetBSD be able to use this drive, or will it
    >> complain about the number of cylinders being greater then 1024?
    >> Thanks.

     > I believe the limitation on cylinders is a DOS problem.  Other
     > smarter OS's have no such limitation.  My SCSI drives have way
     > more than 1024 cylinders...  ;)

um, its a problem I believe with IDE drives in particular more than SCSI.

-bri