From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 1 00:48:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA06945 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06938 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA11876; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:48:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:48:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Chris Coleman cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Logical Block Addressing. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Chris Coleman wrote: > Some of the older CMOS's have a "BIG DISK TRANSLATION" on them. > Sometimes they are set to "DOS" or "OTHER" > I know I have had to set it to "OTHER" when I am installing FreeBSD on the > System. > > What I am really wondering is if it is important in any situation except > where FreeBSD and DOS share a hard disk. I just want someone to confirm > my suspicions. The way I handle this is to ask the question: "Does it work OK in the current setting?" If yes, then I don't touch it. :) FreeBSD uses it's own driver anyway and completely ignores that setting. Only the boot blocks use it, for a very short time. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo