DOS partition tables use a 24b C/H/S value. With 512B sectors, this means they are incapable of representing more than 8G of disk space.
To support a 32b sector offset, you have to go to LBA mode. This isn't really supported by any BIOS that still respects the C/H/S offsets, since they will override. What probably happened is that you had an overflow that wrapped you back to the start of the disk. The general answer on this is: use "dangerously dedicated mode for very large disks". It's possible to work around this, but it's really a pain, and you have to know what you are doing. Chapter 5 of the PReP specification has an excellent tutorial on LBA addressing and DOS partition tables (much better than any Intel related information I have seen to date), if you want to fix this problem, rather than just ignoring it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
