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Re: large disks

To: Duncan Bourne <polarity@trion.f9.co.uk>, misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: large disks
From: "dkwok@iware.com.au" <dkwok@iware.com.au>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:42:03 +1000
References: <3F625DE3.8060500@iware.com.au> <000901c3799a$50fdca40$f600a8c0@shintenou>
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Duncan Bourne wrote:

>The IBM (now Hitachi) deskstar drives have jumper settings that restrict
>them to compatable sizes, the 180GXP range for example.
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>Duncan Bourne
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I understand the Seagate disk also has a jumper to limit it to 33G and 
therefore the BIOS can detect it. However, I don't know whether that 
affect the actual capacity of the disk under OBSD.

David Kwok

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