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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: [9fans] (fwd) Installation  problem
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:19:48 EDT

From: jmk@pla...
>there's a problem with eide drives > 2Gb due to a sign sign extension bug
>in the driver (the 'start' argument of ataxfer() should be of type ulong,
>not long).

>perhaps someone could make a new kernel for you or you could subsitute
>a smaller
>drive to get up then you can make the change yourself.

Try: ftp://ftp.dbSystems.com/pub/PLAN9/pcdist/9dos

Just ignore the multi-ethernet support and speed... :-)