From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 15 01:25:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22677 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 01:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.scancall.no (www.scancall.no [195.139.183.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA22670 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 01:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no) Received: from super2.langesund.scancall.no [195.139.183.29] by www with smtp id JCTMPBEJ; Thu, 15 Oct 98 08:25:13 GMT (PowerWeb version 4.04r6) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981015102016.0093aa20@mail.scancall.no> X-Sender: Marius@mail.scancall.no X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:20:16 +0200 To: Mike Smith From: Marius Bendiksen Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810141521.IAA00738@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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