From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 12:26:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA11488 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 12:26:24 -0700 Received: from mail.nws.orst.edu (mail.nws.orst.edu [128.193.128.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA11479 ; Wed, 3 May 1995 12:26:21 -0700 Received: (from vince@localhost) by mail.nws.orst.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA14235; Wed, 3 May 1995 12:25:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 12:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: -Vince- To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: John Dyson , 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 In-Reply-To: <199505031557.IAA12888@ref.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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