Subject: Re: Multiple > 1 Gb disk installations?
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Guenther Grau <s_grau@ira.uka.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/13/1995 18:58:51
Hi Greg,
[...]
> Are there any issues to look out for, in trying to put NetBSD on a 2nd disk
> that is > 2 Gb? Like DOS geometry remapping problems, or problems trying to
> boot directly from it (I'm hoping that I can get OS-BS 2.0beta8 to recognize
> this setup; if I have a DOS label and DOS partition on the first drive, is
> this doable? I really like being able to cold boot directly into NetBSD if
> I toggle OS-BS to point that way ... )
I don't see any major problems with this setup. Just some minor glitches.
You must not have any other drives in your system ((E-)IDE). If it's just the
one SCSI-drive you have, adding another one should work fine. The only problem
I see, is the LBA translation of the hostadapter. I am not sure how netbsd will
work together with this. I have a 540 MB-IDE drive, a 1 GB SCSI and a 4.3 GB SCSI
hd in my system and I can boot of the 4.3 GB hd, which has SCSI-id 0. During
the boot my hostadapter makes this drive D: (with the ide-drive being C:) <- not a
smiley :-). I have a partition in the first 1024 cylinders on the big hd, which holds
the stuff that needs to be available during booting.
Guenther