Subject: Re: LBA adressing ?
To: JOCHEN BUEHLER <buehler@chclu.chemie.uni-konstanz.de>
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/26/1995 10:24:13 
On Mon, 26 Jun 1995, JOCHEN BUEHLER wrote:

> Why is LBA (what is this, anyway ?) the default when NetBSD
> doesn`t seem to grok it ??

  DOS has problems with IDE drives with more than 1024 cylinders.  LBA 
fakes DOS by translating extra cylinders in extra heads.  IMO, I would 
disable LBA everywhere (on drive, and in CMOS), and run using true geometry.

Tom