From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 19:26: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB8014C29 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA15232; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:53:12 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA42320; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:53:11 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990419115311.R40482@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:53:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please, please help me with my udma drive References: <19990419113515.N40482@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:33:56PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 18 April 1999 at 21:33:56 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 18 April 1999 at 15:44:08 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> >>> You may also want to try to turn off LBA mode in the bios if >>> possible. >> >> You almost certainly want LBA mode on. > > LBA mode is what i was told munched on my /usr partition last 3 times i > took a crashdump. > > "I took a crashdump and it ate my /usr" > "don't use LBA and crashdumps" > "ok" Who told you that? > Maybe i just have to disable the LBA flag in the disk line? > > So LBA is ok in bios but not in "flags"? I was talking about the BIOS. To be fair, I've never set it in the disk flags. But it shouldn't break anything. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message