Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:54:40 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we still need ATA disk CHS addressing? Message-ID: <200908101854.n7AIseFv056967@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:38:16 %2B0200." <86eirjbjl3.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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> From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> writes: > > Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > Have anybody seen ATA drive without LBA support in last years? > > Yes > > Have you really, or did you just assume that "old" means "no LBA"? Yes, I just assumed. > CHS doesn't scale past > 504 MB, so any ATA disk larger than that must peforce support LBA. Ah! If so, then no problem here, Thanks Dag-Erling :-) Alexander Motin wrote: > `atacontrol cap adX` can show you if LBA is supported. Thanks Alexander, I will check that tomorrow on every host I have. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. http://asciiribbon.org Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. http://berklix.com/free/
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