To: port-i386@netbsd.org
Cc: earle@isolar.tujunga.ca.us
Subject: Re: Multiple > 1 Gb disk installations?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Dec 1995 14:38:17 PST." <9512122238.AA16261@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 18:58:51 +0100
From: Guenther Grau <s_grau@ira.uka.de>
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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