From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 13 08:48:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07797 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07750 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:48:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA00285; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:47:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199810131547.RAA00285@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981013162954.0091e800@mail.scancall.no> from Marius Bendiksen at "Oct 13, 98 04:29:54 pm" To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:47:40 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Marius Bendiksen who wrote: > I haven't been tracking this too closely, but doesn't such a thing as Søren > Schmidt suggested (removing LBA support) mean that people with LBA drives > will end up in heaps of trouble? I have 8.4 + 3.2 gigs on LBA-formatted IDE > drives, and would certainly not appreciate losing those. 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. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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