Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:20:16 +0200 From: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981015102016.0093aa20@mail.scancall.no> In-Reply-To: <199810141521.IAA00738@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:34:11 %2B0200." <3.0.5.32.19981014083411.00923cd0@mail.scancall.no>
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>Your second paragraph contradicts the first, as if you had "written an >IDE driver before", you would know that "LBA formatted" doesn't mean >anything, and that LBA and CHS are just two ways of feeding the same >numbers to the disk. Actually, working from disassembled bios code and some crappy command tables doesn't give you much of an idea as to how things work. I knew I ran LBA on all my drives, and thus assumed that accessing them as such would be a good idea. >You'd also know that reading a disk won't cause it to "lose" its data. I was more concerned about -writing- to the disk. :) --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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