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Date:      Wed, 3 May 1995 12:25:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      -Vince- <vince@mail.nws.orst.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        John Dyson <dyson@Root.COM>, 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:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950503122326.13470c-100000@mail.nws.orst.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199505031557.IAA12888@ref.tfs.com>

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On Wed, 3 May 1995, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> > 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.

	Hale Landis only wrote the FAQ on ATA-2 and had nothing to do 
with writing the Standard.  He is only sharing what he knows since he 
used to work for Seagate.  According to John from Seagate, LBA isn't buggy.

Cheers,
Vince -vince@mail.nws.orst.edu-
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering





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