Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 00:45:03 -0400 From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu> To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, dyson@Root.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.org, paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, sos@FreeBSD.org, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: NetBSD supports LBA and large (EIDE) drives Message-ID: <199505040445.AAA18105@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505040348.NAA00265@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Thu, 4 May 1995 13:48:47 %2B1000)
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I used to think LBA was only a hardware standard for IDE drives. Is there also a software standard for bypassing the C/H/S limits for both ordinary BIOS calls and for booting? There is a separate set of BIOS calls that take LBA addresses. What they actually do when talking to the drive is unspecified; they may, in fact, convert the addresses to C/H/S form.
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