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Date:      Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:29:49 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de
Cc:        bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, zach@gaffaneys.com
Subject:   Re: bitten 3 times already.
Message-ID:  <199810130429.OAA05137@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> Dumps and LBA mode should't be mixed, since the dump routine doesn't
>> support LBA mode and it uses CHS mode with nominal geometry if LBA mode
>
>Why is this so?  I don't see why it shouldn't use LBA, too if LBA is
>on for the drive.  That it doesn't support that now seems pretty easy
>to fix to me.  Just change the way it calculates the numbers and that's
>it as far as I can see from my docs and what wd does.

Because no one implemented it, and there is not much point in implementing
LBA mode in any part of the driver until there is a drive that doesn't
support CHS mode.

Bruce

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