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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: EIDE LBA Mode and PIO 3
Date: 7 Nov 1995 23:53:14 +0100
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Thomas Pusateri <pusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>Does anyone know if the latest 2.1 snapshot will support LBA mode.

Not that i know of.

>I have an EIDE controller and my bios has a bunch of options like
>Logical Block Addressing (I have 1400 cyl), and different modes 
>called Standard, Fast PIO 1, 2, and 3. The default mode for my
>disk is Fast PIO 3 which I have no idea what it means.

If you don't know what it means, why did you buy it?

Complain at those guys who've been selling That Crap (tm).

(I could provide you with realistic papers that have been calling it
`crap' actually before it hit the market in the way it does now.
Alas, i guess you won't be able reading them, they're in German.)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)