On Tuesday 16 June 2009 12:45:21 pm Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2009, at 11:33 PM, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > > > > I'm a bit confused now :) > > What bde@ said is that 255 is the max number of heads that is > supported everywhere. 256 may work but is not always > supported. Some web page states that DOS and Windows 95/98 > don't support 256 heads(1). > > (1) http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/bioslim.htm#4GB
There was a bug in the BIOS for 2940 Adaptec SCSI controllers IIRC where it would actually hit an internal divide-by-zero bug if it encountered an MBR table with an entry where the head was 255 (it did a + 1 to get the number of heads so it could work out C/H/S the MBR was expecting). -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
