port-sparc: Re: Having prom command problems

Subject: Re: Having prom command problems
To: None <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu, fair@clock.org>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/18/1998 15:09:28

>I thought that limit was strictly an i386 BIOS thing. No?

No. Older proms just used a group 0 scsi command. If your disk
is set to 512 bytes/sector, you get a 20 bit limit in a group0
command for logical block.