From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 13 23:39:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19754 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.scancall.no (www.scancall.no [195.139.183.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA19746 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no) Received: from super2.langesund.scancall.no [195.139.183.29] by www with smtp id JCACSOZJ; Wed, 14 Oct 98 06:39:07 GMT (PowerWeb version 4.04r6) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981014083411.00923cd0@mail.scancall.no> X-Sender: Marius@mail.scancall.no X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:34:11 +0200 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG From: Marius Bendiksen Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810131547.RAA00285@sos.freebsd.dk> References: <3.0.5.32.19981013162954.0091e800@mail.scancall.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >You dont need to run the drive in LBA mode to coexist with DOS or whatever. >Also you dont need to run the drive in LBA mode to use >8G, infact using >LBA has nothing to do with >8G support. >8G support has something to do >with us probing the drive correctly and using it that way. I know I don't need to run the drive in LBA mode, and that LBA has nothing to do with >8G support. I *have* written an IDE driver before, you know. What I fail to recall, is whether harddrives that are already LBA formatted will lose their data if accessed in CHS mode? Otoh, I suppose we've got code to make sure we follow the 'right' layout anyhow.. --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message