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Date:      Wed, 3 May 1995 08:57:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        dyson@Root.COM (John Dyson)
Cc:        mycroft@ai.mit.edu, sos@FreeBSD.org, paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives
Message-ID:  <199505031557.IAA12888@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505031500.IAA00574@Root.COM> from "John Dyson" at May 3, 95 08:00:31 am

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> significant performance improvements.  Maybe I should have added
> the 20 or so lines to get LBA support?????  My goal was to
> keep from breaking the driver, while getting the desired performance
> improvements.

According to Hale Landis, the guy who wrote 20-40% of the ATA std, LBA
is inmature and buggy, even more so considering that it is not needed
for anything.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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