From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 15 17:45:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38F415543 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:44:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11yOIH-000BAV-00; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:57:17 +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:57:17 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ian Struble Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , chris reaume , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vaio's.. Message-ID: <19991215235717.B2354@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian Struble wrote: > Well yes of course it does vary from HD to HD but probably not as much as > you would think. The flags mentioned do two things(two both the master > and the slave on the controller). The 'a'(8+2+1) is a combination > of a few flag for enabling 32bit disk access, DMA and LBA for disk uh, a = 10 = 8 + 2. I'll point out here one thing I noticed: enabling the LBA flag stopped kernel crash dumps from working. I have no idea why. Has anyone else seen this, or is it just me? -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message