Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:22:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG, zach@gaffaneys.com Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810131021210.14453-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199810130931.LAA07720@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Could you please include a heads up that explains this to user and how to make sure you don't get bitten by the driver getting confused? I understand the concept of LBA but fixing my drive to work non-LBA is something I don't know now to do. It would be much appreciated. thank you, Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > 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+).. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team > Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? > .. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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