Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:57:17 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Ian Struble <ian@broken.net> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, chris reaume <chris@saturn.aepnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vaio's.. Message-ID: <19991215235717.B2354@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.991215140625.23637F-100000@disavowed.broken.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912152128560.95432-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.BSF.3.91.991215140625.23637F-100000@disavowed.broken.net>
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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?
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