Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:28:10 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: ide-problem still with 2.4.21-pre5-ac1 |
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 Harald.Schaefer@gls-germany.com wrote:
> * 1. CHS value set by user (whatever user sets will be trusted) > * 2. LBA value from target drive (require new ATA feature) > * 3. LBA value from system BIOS (new one is OK, old one may break) > * 4. CHS value from system BIOS (traditional style) > > I think that the priority of LBA from BIOS has to be raised to 2 and the > priority of LBA from drive should be lowered to 3. > The mapping-problem only appreared with very new drives in some > brand-computers using a 240-head mapping from the bios.
I think the chances of a drive knowing its own correct LBA info is far better than the BIOS getting it right. Many BIOS versions don't understand large drives.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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