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Subject: Re: atapci VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller: problem for 5.X ?
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At 08:47 2/16/2005, Rob wrote:

>--- Mars Trading <marstrade@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This idea may seem useless but what have you got to
> > lose?
> >
> > Have you tried changing bios setting for hard drive
> > mode to "auto" or
> > something other than "LBA"?  Maybe "LARGE" or "CHS"?
>
>Is there a risk that I lose all data on my disk, when
>changing this in the BIOS?

I wouldn't exactly call it a "risk" -- if you change the disk geometry in 
the bios, you will lose all the data on that drive, guaranteed.  Of course, 
if you don't write anything to it, you can just change it back and it'll 
still be there.  If you don't write anything to it though, it's not going 
to boot.


>BTW: During the fresh FreeBSD install, I have never
>encountered a choice for formatting with or without
>LBA. In the Fdisk window, I choose 'use entire disk
>for FreeBSD', and in the partition window I have set
>'newfs' for all partitions.

LBA is a BIOS thing as was mentioned, not a freebsd install thing.  It's an 
abstraction layer between the drive and the controller.