Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:31:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, sthaug@nethelp.no, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, zach@gaffaneys.com Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Message-ID: <199810130931.LAA07720@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199810130922.TAA31384@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 13, 98 07:22:57 pm"
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In reply to Bruce Evans who wrote:
> >If dumps and LBA mode shouldn't be used together, it would be useful to
> >have a warning about that somewhere, since a lot of BIOSes seem to want
> >to use LBA as default for newer big IDE disks.
>
> This doesn't follow, since the driver's use of LBA has nothing to do
> with the BIOS's use of LBA. The driver should simply not use LBA (as
> in 2.2).
Exactly, maybe I should remove the LBA support in current, there is
no use for it actually, just the change needed to use >8G drives
(like I did it in 2.2.7+)..
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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