Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:53:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please, please help me with my udma drive Message-ID: <19990419115311.R40482@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990418213110.11384a-100000@cygnus.rush.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:33:56PM -0500 References: <19990419113515.N40482@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990418213110.11384a-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On Sunday, 18 April 1999 at 21:33:56 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 18 April 1999 at 15:44:08 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> >>> You may also want to try to turn off LBA mode in the bios if >>> possible. >> >> You almost certainly want LBA mode on. > > LBA mode is what i was told munched on my /usr partition last 3 times i > took a crashdump. > > "I took a crashdump and it ate my /usr" > "don't use LBA and crashdumps" > "ok" Who told you that? > Maybe i just have to disable the LBA flag in the disk line? > > So LBA is ok in bios but not in "flags"? I was talking about the BIOS. To be fair, I've never set it in the disk flags. But it shouldn't break anything. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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