Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:47:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Message-ID: <199810131547.RAA00285@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981013162954.0091e800@mail.scancall.no> from Marius Bendiksen at "Oct 13, 98 04:29:54 pm"
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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.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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